Description

ST 58 NE PILNING AND SEVERN NORTHWICK ROAD (south side)
BEACH Northwick
7/237
Northwick House Farmhouse with
attached barn and dairy range

- II

Farmhouse. Dated 1707/WHM in central gable, also dated 1792/LHM at addition of
south block, with C19 and later alterations and additions. Roughly coursed
rubble, brick, stone dressings, triple roll tiled roof, gable stacks with
octagonal chimneys, crestings; slate roof to rear block, pantiled barn and
dairy. 3-room plan, through passage, barn and dairy form L-plan. 2½ storeys,
3 windows and 3 gables; 2 bays to right have at ground floor: gabled porch
with 4-panelled door, 3 stone cross-windows with entablature, 2 similar windows
at 1st floor and 2 in gables, oval bull's eyes in stone surround with cornice
above, ball finials, straight joint above porch; bay to left has 6-light stone
mullion and transom window with hood mould and stops, 1st floor has stone cross
window with similar hood mould, trefoil in square chamfered surround in gable,
ball finial. 1½ storey wing attached to right, with small gable, slit window
in stone surround and buttress at side. Left return has brick flue, 2 sashes
at 1st floor with intersecting glazing bars in upper half, C20 conservatory,
straight joint between 2 sashes. Rear has irregular windows, including ground
floor centre, similar sash with 8 panes in lower half, intersecting glazing bars
in upper half, 16-pane sash above with gauged brick flat head and surround,
ground and 1st floor left have 16-pane boxed sashes with cambered heads;
2-storey block connecting house to barn and dairy has boxed sash at 1st floor
north. 3-bay barn has cart entry, 2 windows and door, all with timber lintel,
blocked loading door in gable end, catslide roof to north; dairy has plank and
batten door with glass insertion and timber lintel, 2-light fixed window above,
external stair leading to trellis porch with door to former cheese-loft.
Interior: not inspected. (Sources: Hall, Linda : Rural Houses of North Avon
and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720. 1983).

Listing NGR: ST5610286381

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26598955

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Recommended Books

• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)