Description

SUTTON VALENCE BABYLON LANE
TQ 84 NW
(south side)
5/107 Babylon
Farmhouse
11.8.77
GV II

Farmhouse. First half of C17, with C19 alterations. Timber
framed. Ground floor clad with painted brick. First floor of
main range weatherboarded, first floor of left wing tile-hung.
Plain tile roof. 3 timber-framed bays, with short C19 two-
storeyed wing projecting forwards from left end bay. 2 storeys
on stone plinth. Roof has slightly lower ridge to right of
stack. Brick ridge stack to left end of right bay, with smaller
flue in lean-to behind. Irregular fenestration of 3 casements;
one 2-light to C19 wing, and two 3-light to main range.
Boarded door in C19 painted brick lean-to against junction with
C19 wing. Rear lean-to to right bay only. 2-storey extension
of 1980s to rear excluded. Interior: exposed framing. Cut
jowls. Ogee chamfer-stops to beams. Mortices for frieze
window of at least 4 lights with moulded and subsidiary mullions
to rear wall of central ground floor room. Inglenook fireplace
to central room. Broad fireplace straddling right end bay and
lean-to with chamfered stone jambs with vase stops. Clasped
purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters, curved wind-
braces, queen-struts to collars, and intermediate collars.
Right bay of roof rebuilt in late C18 or C19.

Listing NGR: TQ8027746012

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26639216

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)