Description

SU 51 NW BISHOPS WALTHAM BOTLEY ROAD

1879/3/10016 Brooklands Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. C16 and C17 with C18, C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed, re-faced in brick and with brick additions in a variety of bonds; Welsh slate roof; brick chimneys. C16 house of 2 storeys, 2 bays; C17 chimney and 2-storey, 2-bay timber-framed range added on left, with rear outshut; and a further 1-bay brick addition on left of 2 storeys with basement, and rear outshut, C18; C19 brick single-storey wash-kitchen added at right-angles at left end; late-C19 rear outshut and wing additions to right section. South-west elevation: main range: straight joints indicate the 3 builds. The oldest (right-hand) section has some stone blocks on left and exposed timber wall-plate; section on left of centre has brick in Flemish bond with blue headers. Segmental arches to ground-floor openings; mostly wide windows with mid-C20 steel windows; a 3-light small-pane wooden casement window to ground-floor left, and one of 2 lights on left of centre. Inserted French window and blocked entrance to right of entrance. Large central stack with tripled flues. End stacks, that on right external. Wash-kitchen has gable stack. Right return: late-C20 conservatory covers entrance and re-set medieval ashlar corbel in form of king's head (probably removed from Bishops Waltham Palace in C17 and found incorporated in chimney). Rear: right section: continuous outshut under catslide roof; 2 left bays of thin red brick in irregular bond with casement windows of 4 and 3 lights and one 3-light dormer window. Bay on right of pink brick in English bond; replacement basement door with 2-light window over. Interior: remnants of timber-framed walling, principally of former rear wall. On ground floor: large-scantling beams, mostly stop-chamfered; joists; cross-beam between right-hand bays has mortices in soffit indicating former plank and muntin partition wall; timber bressumers to fireplaces. 1st floor: some old floor boards. Roof over right section: original smoke-blackened structure includes tie-beams, collared queen-post trusses, clasped purlins, rafters, straight wind-braces. Former left-hand end-wall has traces of lime-wash on outer face. A C16 timber-framed house with C17 additions on a historically-significant site

Listing NGR: SU5428816690

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537795

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings