Description

BRAILES
SP34SW
3/21 Upper Chelmscote Farmhouse

- II

Farmhouse. Datestones 1688 and T/M/I 1698. Brick with ironstone quoins and
window and door dressings. Flemish bond with vitrified headers. Steeply pitched
slate roof to front and red tile roof to rear. Stone coped gables surmounted by
ball finials. Brick ridge stacks. Moulded kneelers. Ironstone plinth. 3-unit
plan. 2 storeys plus attic; 5-window range. Central entrance has wide C20 door
partly glazed, with margin lights. Ironstone hood mould and label stops. Doorway
is flanked by pairs of 2-light stone-mullioned windows of simple splay section
with hood mould and label stops. 5 similar windows to first floor. All windows
have lead cames. Most have wrought-iron casement fasteners. Rear has raking
roofed outshuts and a 2-storey rear wing. Main front has a 2-storey extension to
left with brick end stack and extension stairs to loft. Renewed brickwork.
Interior: noted as having a C17 dog-leg staircase.

Listing NGR: SP3166241555

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26638258

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)