Description

ST24SW FIDDINGTON CP FARM LANE (South side)

3/98 Farm Estate Farmhouse

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- II*

House. C15, floored C16, C17 and C18 embellishments, refronted late C19. Coursed and squared blue lias rubble, coped
verges, slate roofs, some cresting to ridge, brick stacks. E-plan; Gothic frontage. Two storeys, attic, 1:1:1:1 bays, 2
and 3-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows, majority with transoms; single storey 4-light canted bay windows to
second and third bays from left; corresponding windows to first floor in gabled half dormers. Central door opening in a
chamfered dressed stone surround, label with floral stops, plank door. Wing to left return of 3 bays, some 2 and
3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned windows, iron stanchions, one with leaded lights. E-shaped garden frontage,
predominantly late C19 casements of 2 and 3-lights, right wing with a projecting bread oven. Particularly rich interior
under roofs of cruck construction; room to right of ground floor with a moulded and plastered cross-beam ceiling, this
room also with a fireplace with a chamfered wooden bresssumer and stone jambs. Room in wing to rear with an ornamental
plaster ceiling of c1700 in a Baroque style with fruit swags, cherubs and masks; adjacent to this room a contemporary
staircase with a moulded and ramped handrail and turned balusters; some further C17 plasterwork to first floor; further
fireplace with a broad wooden bressumer to rear; adjacent 2 C17 doors with moulded architraves. (VCH forthcoming; VAG
Report, unpublished SR0).

Listing NGR: ST2230641774

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553384

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)