Description

BEGBROKE SANDY LANE
SP41SE (North side)
3/1 Begbroke Hill Farmhouse

26/11/51

- II

Farmhouse, now offices. c.1604 for Humphrey Fitzherbert. Coursed limestone
rubble; gabled artificial stone slate roof with moulded kneelers to stone
acoping; stone end stacks. Double-depth plan. Jacobean style. 2 storeys and
attic; 5-window range. 3-storey central porch has pyramidal finials to
stone-coped gable; 2- and 3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows; label
mould over chamfered shallow-arched doorway with roundels set in spandrels and
C20 door. Similar 3-light and 4-light windows; similar 2-light windows set in
gabled dormers to end bays with pyramidal finials to stone-coped gables. Similar
windows to sides and rear. C19 rear extension. Early C17 blocked chamfered
pointed arch with moulded imposts to C17 cellar to rear right. Interior: porch
has plaster quadripartite vaulted ceiling and stop-chamfered segmental-arched
doorway. Stone-flag floors, Quartered beams to right, have moulded cornices and
trailing scrolls and flowers to soffits of beams and frieze. Stop-chamfered
beams to left and first floor. Restored winder stairs to rear right. Moulded and
arched stone fireplace with sunk spandrels to first floor room on left.
Butt-purlin roof, In 1604 Fitzherbert was accused of ruining nearby roads by the
frequent use of "late carriages for his buildings".
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p450; Information from the VCH)

Listing NGR: SP4793313466

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579445

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  For the Record
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)