Description

NEWBURGH

SD4810 ASH BROW
663-1/6/90 (South side)
11/08/72 Greenhill Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1748 on canopy over door; altered.
Brown and yellow brick in Flemish bond, on plinth of coursed
squared sandstone, with stone slate roof. Double-depth 4-room
plan.
Two storeys and attic, a symmetrical 3-window facade, with a
high chamfered plinth, a central doorway with a raised-panel
door, wooden doorcase and gabled stone slab canopy on large
brackets, the tympanum inscribed
C
H A
T C
1748
and sashed windows which have flat-arched heads with keystones
(all now glazed with 2 panes in the lower leaf and 6 panes in
the upper). Boarded eaves; gable chimneys. The left gable has
a low segmental-headed window at ground floor, another at 1st
floor (the former a casement and the latter a sliding sash)
and a small 2-light window to the attic; rear windows mostly
altered.
INTERIOR: exposed beams; doglegged staircase to 1st floor with
closed string and turned balusters; fielded panel doors on
both floors, those to the front rooms with H-L hinges and
those to the back rooms with lug hinges (allowing the doors to
lifted off); very small chamber fireplaces in front rooms (now
blocked) with deep cambered lintels; purlin roof including
some re-used timbers.

Listing NGR: SD4855910280

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26578970

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living