Description

TM 04 NE
6/139
9.12.55

OFFTON
BILDESTON ROAD
Poplar Farmhouse (Formerly listed as The Poplars)

GV
II

House, formerly farmhouse. Built in 2 stages - early and late C16 - with C20
alterations. 2 storeys. 3-cell plan. Timber-framed and plastered with mid
C20 herringbone pargetting in panels. Plaintiled roof with axial C17 chimney
of red brick. Mainly C20 windows of 3 lights with metal casements and leaded
lights. Several C16 diamond-mullioned windows have been restored and glazed
in C20. Rear C20 boarded entrance door. An early or mia C16 3-bay hall at
the right-hand end has a binding joist with broach-stopped chamfers and large
unchamfered joists. tension-braced close-studwork. A 2-cell extension
containing a service room and a new hall were added to left in C16, the old
hall becoming a parlour. A chimney was placed in the old cross-passage in
late C16 or C17. The later work has less-massive but more closely-spaced
studwork. Half of the wind-braced butt-purlin roof remains. At the left and
rear are 3 minor C19 and C20 extensions.

Listing NGR: TM0513749519

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542957

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)