Description

STAN HILL
1.
5387
(south-west side)
TQ 24 SW 1/58 11.11.66 Highworth Farmhouse
II* GV

2.
Late C15 or early C16 4 bay open hall house later adapted, to smoke bay house and
with dairy outshut in north-east corner. Two storeys timber-framed with painted
back infilling. Square framing with same diagonal braces. Hipped tiled roof with
gablets and pentice. Three casement windows. Wind brace and clasped purlin roof
with smoke blackened rafters. There is a cross passage behind the chimney and the
partition wall between hall and solar has matching parallel arch braces. The dairy
out shut retains its stone floor and there are fine elm floor-boards in the ceiled
over hall. The inserted chimney has a bacon loft. The ingle nook hearth was the
subject of a painting by the late C19 Surrey artist Binscombe Gardner. It has a bread
oven and salt cupboard. One of the most unaltered late Mediaeval houses in Charlwood.
(See Joan M Harding, "Four Centuries of Charlwood Houses" pp 50 and 51).

Listing NGR: TQ2308342633

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547741

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)