Description

SW 74 SE KEA HUGUS

1/153 Kilters Farmhouse (Called Kelsters
on O.S. map)

GV II

Farmhouse barn and cottage. Circa early C19. Painted killas rubble and painted and
rendered cob. Slate sills with shallow brick arches over ground floor openings of
farmhouse, otherwise wooden lintels plastered over. Steep asbestos slate roof,
formerly thatched, over house with brick chimneys over gable ends shared with barn,
left, (west) and cottage, right, both with corrugated asbestos roofs. Cottage used
to have external cob stack to right-hand gable end.
Plan of house of 2 nearly equal rooms flanking cross passage now leading to circa mid
C19 stair in service outshut to rear of left-hand room. Barn with bank to rear on
left and single-cell cottage with left-hand cross passage on right. Ground slopes
down to right.
2 storeys. Overall 4-window front with nearly symmetrical 3-window house to middle
with doorway slightly to left and possibly original 4-panel door. Slate weathering
over doorway probably for former porch. Windows are 6-pane horned sashes. 1-window
cottage on right is divided from house by painted rubble garden wall, and has doorway
to left with orginal 4-panel door. Small 4-pane window to right and slightly larger
one over. Barn front, left, is obscured by ivy but has doorway to first floor rear.
Interior of ground floor of house is little altered since the C19 with moulded
ceiling beams and 4-panel doors. Roof structures said to be original.
A simple umpretentious range little altered since the C19.

Listing NGR: SW7755743734

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613945

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014