Description

HORSMONDEN SCHOOLHOUSE LANE
TQ 74 SW
(east side)
School House Farmhouse
1/97
GV II

House. Circa 1500, altered C17. Timber framed, clad with painted brick on ground
floor and rendered with applied timber studding on first floor. Weather boarded left
return; right return tile hung with sandstone base. Plain tiled roof. Wealden hall
house plan in origin. Two storeys, basement and attic on plinth with half-hipped
roof and stacks to end right and clustered to centre left. Gabled dormer to right.
Four wooden casements on each floor. Original entry to centre left, now by glazed
door in left return in gabled timber porch dated 1946; basement openings to left
return elevation. Catslide outshot and late C20 dormers and alterations to rear.
Interior: the roof rebuilt C17 to staggered purlin pattern re-using old timbers,
some soot blackened. The two end bays with transverse cambered tie beams with
mortices for crown posts. Full frame visible with arched braces and with roll and
hollow chamfered spine beams. Red brick and stone stack (C17) and stone lined
cellar, part rebuilt with red brick.

Listing NGR: TQ7219941375

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26623078

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (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]