Description

SD 83 SW HAPTON (off) ) BILLINGTON ROAD

4/9 Watson Laithe Farmhouse and
attached barn
-
- II

Farmhouse and barn, C17, probably in 2 builds, house divided into 2 cottages
in C19 now restored to one. Large sandstone rubble with quoins, house roof
of stone slate with ridge chimney, barn roof on lower level now corrugated
metal sheet. Double-depth 2-bay house with front outshut to 1st bay, and
4-bay barn to right. Two-storey house, which overlaps the quoins to the
left gable of the barn and appears to have been added to it, has outshut
porch to left with plain doorway in side wall, 2 windows on each floor, that
at ground floor left formerly a doorway with chamfered surround and that at
1st floor right of 2 lights, double-chamfered with a square replacement
mullion. Barn has a wagon doorway with large wooden lintel in the 2nd bay,
a plain doorway and a window to the left, and a later outshut to the 3rd
bay; north gable wall has square breathers on 3 levels, 3 doorways at ground
floor (the outer 2 altered as windows) and a loading door to loft in centre;
rear of barn has continuous cowshed with stone slate roof. Rear of house:
gable wall above barn incorporates a moulded gable coping with 4 carvings: a
rose, IHC (Jesus), a rampant lion, and a crucified figure (all ex situ,
probably late medieval); at 1st floor a 2-light window like that at the
front, and a 5-light double chamfered mullion window lacking the 4th
mullion; south gable, rendered and painted white, has a similar 3-light
window at 1st floor, and there are various other inserted or altered windows
in both these walls. Interior: ground floor has narrow beams with
cyma-stopped chamfered, 1st floor has one large chamfered beam c.25 ft.
long; stone spiral staircase.

Listing NGR: SD8095431041

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26531091

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House