Description

NORWOOD HILL ROAD
1.
5387
(east side)
Brittleware Farmhouse
TQ 24 SW 1/30 11.11.66
II

2.
C16. Three bay central smoke bay house with stair turret and chimney inserted in
C17 and early C18 parlour winf added to north. L-shaped. Two storeys and attics
timber-framed with painted brick infilling, the first floor tile hung. Half-hipped
tiled roof with pentice behind having a gabled stair turret projecting from this.
Three casement windows. Simple doorcase. The roof structure is clasped purlin
with curved wind braces. Smoke blackened rafters to old smoke bay. The atticswere
always used for storage and the wooden grain bins still remain. The stair
turret leads directly onto the farmyard so that farm hands did not have to enter
the house with sacks of corn. The parlpur has some C18 panelling to dado level.
Chamfered and stopped joists. (See Domestic Buildings Research Group Report
No 14. Joan M Harding "Four Centuries of Charlwood Houses" p 30).

Listing NGR: TQ2455043267

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26567297

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living