Description

SE 9222 - 9322 WINTERINGHAM LOW BURGAGE
(east side)

8/34 Gate End Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. C16 or earlier with C18 rear wing and later alterations,
including early C20 rendering and re-roofing. Main range is timber-framed,
with ground floor cased in roughly-squared limestone and first floor in
brick, with brick gables and stacks; colourwashed gable-end and rear, rough-
rendered first floor front. Rear wing in colourwashed coursed limestone
rubble with brick dressings and stack. Slate roof to main range, with
pantiles to hipped gable and rear wing. L-shaped on plan: main range with 5
bays of timber frame has 4 rooms with entrance/stair hall to left of centre
and single-room rear wing with outshut. 2 storeys, irregular fenestration.
Stone quoins to ground floor left; first floor has brick quoins to left and
wooden board to right angle. 4 stone steps to recessed plank door in wooden
architrave under concrete lintel. Small datestone to right inscribed IW.
1739
Single 16-pane sliding sash to left, 3-light sliding sash with glazing bars
and 16-pane sliding sash to right. Plain wooden board at first floor level
with rendering above. Three 12-pane first floor sliding sashes with lintels
at eaves level. All windows c1975 replacements. Steeply-pitched roof,
hipped to left. 3 axial stacks. Right return, facing Silver Street, has
ground floor sliding sash under segmental brick arch, a C17-18 brick upper
section with 3-course dentilled brick bands at first floor and eaves level,
and C19 decorative barge boards. C19 double-course dentilled brick first
floor band to rear wing. Interior. Spine beams in 2 ground floor right
rooms are supported on a timber post with broach-stopped chamfers and roll
moulding; timber posts, tie beams and wall plates exposed on first floor.
Central truss has one surviving arch brace. Roof of 8 or 9 bays, truncated
by hip and partly rebuilt, has clasped purlins and raking struts from tie
beams to arched collars. Surviving timber framing suggests a late medieval
open hall flanked by single rooms with chambers above, with a floor inserted
in the hall in C16-17. In 1719 the farmhouse, shown on a contemporary plan
as L-shaped, was occupied by Thomas Westoby. An unusual and important
example of a type of building rare to this area. D Neave, Winteringham
1650-1760, 1984, 54-5.

Listing NGR: SE9320022192

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551370

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)