Description

TEMPLE GRAFTON

SP15SW ARDENS GRAFTON
1931-1/3/93 Cider Mill Farmhouse and attached
02/08/72 malthouse
(Formerly Listed as:
ARDENS GRAFTON
Vauxhall Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse with attached former malthouse. C17 and early C18
with late C18 or early C19 refronting and C20 alterations.
Coursed blue lias rubble with brick refronting; steeply
pitched old tile roof with brick stack to front of ridge stack
and end and lateral stacks; malthouse has slate roof.
PLAN: L-plan: double-gabled wing with attached malthouse.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window range with lower 3-storey
malthouse, due to slope of ground. Plat band with blue headers
over ground floor; top dentiled brick cornice; large stone
buttress with tile off-sets. Ground floor has window in
lean-to projection to left of buttress and segmental-headed
window to right; both have C20 small-paned casements. First
floor has segmental-headed windows, that to left with 3-light
pegged and leaded casement, that to right with C20 small-paned
casement. Lower wing to left has similar inner return.
Former entrance to right has rubbed brick flat arch with stone
key block over inserted C20 casement; segmental-headed window
to left has 3-light casement, similar window above has leaded
casement; end stack with 2 diagonal shafts.
Malthouse has blocked segmental-headed entrance and raking
buttress, small window to each end of each floor with pegged
casements or barred.
Left return has similar details to malthouse with 2 inserted
C20 garage doors; C20 lean-to outshut to house, which is
carried round rear elevation, which has projecting quoins and
C20 casements.
End of malthouse has round-headed entrance with tympanum over
heavy pegged frame and plank door; similar loading door to
first floor has segmental head with hoist over,
segmental-headed first-floor window and top 3-light window.
INTERIOR: some chamfered beams and stone back-to-back
fireplaces, one side has bressumer cut through for larger
window, off-set brick breast to first floor, some old doors,
one with ventilation slots and one with HL-hinges; roof has
collar trusses with trenched principals.
Malthouse has stone chamber from ground to attic with
first-floor catwalk; top gypsum floor and clasped purlins to
one side of roof; pulley mechanism and large timber hopper;
some stud partitioning and doorway with curved lintels,
possibly reused from cider mill.

Listing NGR: SP1158054342

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662791

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback