Description

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HAVANT

SZ79NW SELSMORE LANE
100-0/9/10008 Mengham, Hayling Island
Mengham Farmhouse

II

House, formerly a farmhouse. Circa late C16 or early C17; altered in C17, C18, C19 and C20.
Roughcast timber-frame. Plain tile hipped roof Brick axial and end stacks. PLAN: 3-room
plan, service room to the right [east]; with a smoke-bay and possibly an open hall originally. If
open, the hall would have been floored in the C17; later in C17 or in the C18 a stack was
inserted into the smoke-bay, a lobby entrance entrance formed at the front and a winder
staircase installed beside the stack at the back. Later in the C18 or early in the C19 an outshut
was built at the back and a large oven built at the right [east] end. Late C20 wing to rear left.
EXTERIOR: 1-storey and attic. Asymmetrical 4-window south front. 2 and 3-light casements
with glazing bars; 3 gabled attic dormers with 2-light casements with glazing bars; doorway to
right of centre with C20 gabled porch. Stack at right [east] end with large oven at base. Roof
at rear carried down over outshut; small C20 wing on right. INTERIOR: Timber-framing
exposed. Right hand room has chamfered axial beam with middle section scarfed in, brick
fireplace in later outshut on right end with chamfered timber lintel and large brick bread oven.
The hall and inner room to left have flamed partition between; chamfered axial beams with
hollow-step stops, the inner room with triangular stop, chamfered joists with cyma or
hollow-step stops; hall has large brick fireplace with chamfered cambered lintel. In the attic
chambers exposed wall-framing with jowled posts, tension-braces and wall-plate; queen-post
trusses with clasped purlins and wind-braces. In the roof-space there is smoke-blackening in the
smoke-bay, the common-rafters over the hall appear to be clean.

Listing NGR: SZ7243499153

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26554412

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Recommended Books

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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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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair