Description

1096/4/191
15-OCT-03

PUCKLECHURCH
LYDE GREEN
LYDE GREEN FARMHOUSE

GV
II*

Farmhouse. Circa mid-late C17; possibly with earlier origins. Coursed limestone rubble with stone dressings. Clay pantile gabled roof. Rendered axial stacks with diagonally-set red brick shafts.
PLAN: 3-room and through-passage plan; the left room heated from an axial stack backing onto the through-passage and a small unheated room at the rear in a short wing; the right-hand room heated from an axial stack between it and a smaller unheated room on the right end; later single-storey porch on the front and a 2-storey porch at the back of the passage with an integral stair turret.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. 3-bay west front with two large gables with ovolo-moulded 3-light stone mullion window frames with hood moulds, iron casements and large relieving arches above; smaller single-light moulded stone attic window frames in gables with hood moulds; small stone gabled porch at centre with moulded timber inner door frame, its left jamb missing; bay to right appears to have been extended forwards and has small square wooden window frame. The south and north gable-ends also have stone mullion windows, the south with two later raking buttresses. The rear [east] elevation has two large gables, a shallow gabled wing to the right and a gabled 2-storey porch at the centre with a moulded timber inner door frame with carved stops and a plank door; the rear elevation also has a complete set of similar moulded stone mullion windows with hood moulds and relieving arches.
INTERIOR is largely unaltered and retains many of its C17 features. Front door has draw-bar. Through-passage has chamfered beam to left on corbels over wall with chamfered timber doorframe with cambered head. Right-hand room with later axial partition, chamfered axial beam with cyma stops and C20 chimneypiece blocking fireplace. Chamfered door frame from passage to room to right which has a deeply chamfered cross-beam with large convex stops and a chamfered half-beam over stack with large bar stop; fireplace blocked by C20 chimneypiece. Unheated room on right ceiled and with later fireplace in back of axial stack. Plank/panel door to stairs. Fine C17 dog-leg stairs with moulded string with rusticated frieze, heavy moulded handrail, large square newels, only one finial remains and splat balusters missing. Axial passage at back on first floor with cyma-moulded door frames to chambers with elaborate stops. Great chamber has intersecting chamfered ceiling beams with pyramid-like stops. North chamber has simple C18 chimneypiece. Moulded door frame to attic stairs with plank/panel door. Intact C17 roof structure, cross-gabled with chamfered tie-beams, one with shaped braces at either end, chamfered collars with cyma stops and common-rafter couples intact. The roof of the rear wing has what appear to be re-used smoke-blackened purlins and rafters.
An unusually unaltered large C17 stone farmhouse with many of the early features surviving.
SOURCE: Hall, L.: Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720 [1983]

Listing NGR: ST6845277795

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556907

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