Description

ADMINGTON

SP14NE UPPER ADMINGTON
1912-1/5/12 Top Farmhouse
05/04/67

GV II

Farmhouse. C17. Regular coursed limestone rubble. Steeply
pitched hipped graduated stone slate roof with stone and brick
end stack and external lateral stack. L-plan with re-entrant
wings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; 4-window range. Entrance to
left of centre has single-chamfered reveals and 2-light
overlight, plank door and C20 gabled porch. Ground floor has
recessed-cross-mullioned windows, one to left of entrance and
3 to right, 2 being grouped together with entrance. 1st floor
has similar windows; 3 original hipped roof dormers with
2-light casements, one small-paned, one blocked, one leaded.
Right return is 4-window range, said to have originally been
longer, entrance to left of centre with 2-light overlight to
plank door; windows with leaded cross-casements, 2 to 1st
floor are blocked, one with visible iron bars.
Rear has wing to left with projecting end stack with renewed
shaft and coped gable; later wide gabled wing to centre has
small window with pegged frame and segmental-headed window
with brick arch over leaded cross-casement, 2 windows to 1st
floor with 2-light casements; gabled wing to right end has
forward break to right of brick lean-to porch to former
entrance, and windows with timber lintels.
Left return has single-storey hipped wing with garage door to
rear; to left an entrance with plank door and window to each
floor with 2-light casement, that to 1st floor has
weatherboarding over leaded casement and board painted with
words: CHEESE ROOM; to right a large external lateral stack
with renewed shaft, entrance to right end has timber lintel
over studded plank door.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP1974845080

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662562

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6