Description

SJ 68 SW APPLETON C.P. BARLEYCASTLE LANE
(North Side)

6/2 Booth's Farm Farmhouse.

GV II

Farmhouse, late C17, altered. Brick rendered mid C20, with gable
copings, cyma kneelers and some dressings of sandstone; graded grey
slate roof. The symmetrical front of 2 storeys plus attics has hall
behind gabled porch (with one room to each side) and 2 gabled dormers.
Flush gable chimneys of brick; each has 2 separated square flues. Mid
C20 casements to lower 2 storeys; small-pane C19 dormer windows; all
in altered openings. The basket-arched porch contains a 6-panel door
in a moulded timber architrave.

The 2-storey rear wing is of similar materials.

Interior C17 open-well newel stair with plain flat (replacement)
balusters between ground and first floor and original splat balusters
to upper flights and top landing. Several chamfered oak beams.
Boarded doors to most rooms, some of oak on upper floors, on H hinges.
There is a fixed cheese-press and bacon-curing slab.

Listing NGR: SJ6477884041

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q62388537

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)