Description

TQ 64 SW PEMBURY AMHURST BANK ROAD

5/352 Amhurst Hill Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Circa 1840, with little late modernisation. Ground floor is
Flemish bond red brick, first floor is exposed timber-framing and gables are
hung with bands of red and darker red tiles. Brick stacks have tall
ornamental chimneyshafts, divided octagonal shafts with star-shaped cornices.
peg-tile roof and ridge tiles include a regular series of crested ridge tiles.

Plan: L-plan farmhouse facing north west towards the lane. The main block
has a 3-room plan. Large axial stack between centre and right rooms serves
back-to-back fireplaces on 2 floors. Centre room is probably the kitchen and
left room an unheated service room. An axial stack serves the first floor
chamber over. Front block projects forward at right angles from the right
(south west) end. It includes the front doorway on the left side of the front
end and the room in the wing has a projecting outer lateral stack.

2 storeys with attics in the roofspace.

Exterior: Attractive Tudor Gothic style. Irregular 1:1-window front. The
first floor left window (to the main block) has a plain mullioned frame,
possibly a replacement. The others are square headed with timber frames,
hollow-chamfered mullions with trefoil-headed heads. The taller windows are
transomed. The gable end, the attic storey, of the crosswing contains a
narrow trefoil-headed lancet above a timber plaque with a cusped quatrefoil
panel. The front doorway, in the front end of the crosswing, has a solid
timber frame; a Tudor arch with chamfered surround and sunken spandrels. It
contains the original plank door. The main roof. and front wing are gable-
ended with plain bargeboards and apex pendants. Another gable to rear of main
block left (north east) of centre. Similar Gothic style windows around the
rest of the house. The first floor of the front crosswing jetties forward on
shaped timber brackets, so too does the left (north east) end and this jetty
is carried round the back to include the gabled section there.

Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey but
original joinery and other detail is suspected.

Listing NGR: TQ6325043360

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552337

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)