Description

SJ 87 NW MILLINGTON C.P. REDDY LANE

1/34 Boothbank Farmhouse

5.3.59

II

Farmhouse. c.1670. Plum-coloured English garden wall bond brick with
stone slate and slate roof but originally thatch with stone dressings.
2 storeys with basement and attic: baffle-entry plan. Entrance
front: 3 bays, C19 2-storey gabled porch to left of centre with
arched lintel and C19 doorway with original C17 ovolo moulded door
surround within 2-light window with relieving arch over. Stone gable
cappings and kneelers. 3-light splayed-head windows to either side
with ovolo moulded mullions and 2 similar C19 casement windows to
first floor. Band of 2 bricks depth between floors. C19 lean-to wing
to left. Right hand gable end has 2 2-brick-depth bands between
ground and first floor and first floor and attic. Bricked-up window
to first floor with cambered arch and 3-light casement to attic with
ovolo moulded mullions and cambered relieving arch above with C20
bricks in tympanum. Stone dressings to gable and band with angled
ends. Wing to rear with stone dressings to gable end and C19 and C20
window insertions. C19 outshuts to rear and sides.
Interior: Stone flag floors to ground floor; large cambered
bressummer to parlour fireplace. Ovolo moulded ceiling beams to
parlour and other C17 ground floor rooms and chamfered beams to C17
first floor rooms. Original plank doors throughout. 4-flight closed
string dogleg staircase.

Listing NGR: SJ7250685099

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568147

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)