Description

RICKINGHALL SUPERIOR THE STREET (SOUTH EAST
TM 0475
SIDE)
6/161 The Homestead
29.7.55
GV II
House. Mid to late C17, altered and extended early to mid C18, altered mid
C19 and early C20. Red brick with some timber framing, all colourwashed and
rendered. Plaintiled roof with pantiles to rear and on additions. 3 cell
plan with end stacks, service additions to rear right to form an L on plan. 2
storeys and attic. Ground floor: entrance to left of centre, a 6 panelled
door with panelled reveals in a C20 gabled porch, 3 large architraved
transomed 3-light part opening casements. First floor 3 architraved part
opening cross casements. Plat band, eaves cornice. 3 gabled 2-light dormers.
Internal end stacks. Moulded kneelers to tumbled-in gable end parapets, right
end plat band. Slightly projecting to rear right a square 2 storey C18
service block with a hipped roof, a panelled door with a gauged brick round
arched head to a through passage, dentilled eaves; beyond is 2 bay 1 storey
kitchen with C20 casements, dentilled eaves and a C19 external stack with
offsets, rear gable end moulded kneelers to tumbled-in parapet. Main range to
rear has C19 lean-to additions with a part glazed 6 panelled door with a
bracketed hood, to right a 6-light leaded bow window, first floor sashes, a
C17 external stack now truncated. Interior: to right a secondary small 1
parlour with some early C18 raised panelling with a cyma cornice, first floor
appears to have had 8 window openings to front, reset early C18 raised
panelling to passage, double staggered tenoned purlin roof. Attached to left
end a 1 storey 2 bay early C20 surgery links to a lean-to outshut to far left
which projects forward and which contains fragments of a C16 timber frame.

Listing NGR: TM0460375634

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534122

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Recommended Books

• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings