Description

The following entry:-

TL 85 NW WHEPSTEAD TUFFIELDS ROAD

4/154 Castle Farmhouse

shall be amended to include the grade:-

TL 85 NW WHEPSTEAD TUFFIELDS ROAD

4/154 Castle Farmhouse

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TL 85 NW WHEPSTEAD TUFFIELDS ROAD

4/154 Castle Farmhouse

Farmhouse; C15 core with alterations of early C17 and early C19. 3-cell lobby-
entrance plan; 1 1/2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and pebble-dashed.
Slated roof with axial chimney of red brick. Mainly C20 casements and C20
panelled entrance door. The core consists of a 2-cell open hall house, with
twin service rooms, having lodged upper floor structure, at the left-hand end.
Fragmentary remains of original coupled-rafter roof with smoke-blackening above
open hall. Upper floor inserted into hall early C17 and new parlour block
built at right-hand end; chimney built with open fireplaces to hall and
parlour; roof renewed, of clasped-purlin type. An ovolo-moulded mullioned
window exposed in the parlour. The rear 2-storey wing added early C19.

Listing NGR: TL8386555578

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26567654

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Recommended Books

• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (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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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]