Description

SJ 43 NW
5/193

WELSHAMPTON CP
BREADEN HEATH
Old Hall Farmhouse

GV
II
Shown on O.S. map as Holbrook Farmhouse.

Farmhouse, now disused. Early-to mid C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber-framed with red brick infill, cladding and additions; graded slate roof. Three-unit baffle-entry plan with eaves slightly raised.

Framing: square panels to front partly concealed by C19 brick cladding; queen-strut end trusses. Late C19 and early C20 casements, three directly below eaves and three to ground floor, two to left and one to right of C19 boarded door with cambered head to right of centre. Infilled doorway to left of present door with ridge stack above, formerly forming baffle entry. External end stack to left and internal end stack to right. C19 cast-iron pump attached to far right. Early C19 two storey gabled red brick addition at right-angles to rear on left and narrow mid C19 gabled addition at right-angles to rear on right with C19 red brick lean-to dairy between.

INTERIOR: timber frame fragmentarily exposed throughout with chamfered ceiling beams and exposed joists to ground floor. Plank doors and inset panelled wall cupboards with variety of H-, L- and cocks' head hinges. C19 cast-iron grates to fireplaces and queen-strut roof in three bays to main range.

Listing NGR: SJ4446236445

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26648156

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (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]
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)