Description

HIGH LITTLETON

1065/0/10003 CHURCH HILL
16-JUN-04 Church Farmhouse

GV II
House; probably the remaining wing of a larger house. Circa late C17; remodelled C18. Limestone rubble with freestone dressings. Welsh slate steeply-pitched roof with stone-coped gable ends. Stone gable-end stack with short ashlar shaft with cap and string course.
PLAN: Rectangular on plan with room at south end separated from the rest of the house by a partition wall apparently without a connecting doorway, but with an external doorway at the front; the centre bay is divided axially into front and back rooms and there is an integral single-storey outshut at the north end, probably the result of partitial demolition and possibly containing unheated service rooms. Thought to be the remaining wing of a larger house, the rest of which is no longer extant.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 4-bay west front with 2-light cyma-moulded stone mullion window frames without hoodmoulds, the first floor with small gables over; to left and right blocked stone segmental arch doorways with small keystones; left hand bay is in integral lean-to outshut with similar 2-light stone mullion window. Similar windows and one later wooden casement at rear.
INTERIOR observed from first floor west front window; tenoned-purlin roof structure.
NOTE: Church Farmhouse is reputedly the surviving wing of the seat of the Hodges family, who were the principal landowners in the area and had coal mining interests on the estate.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670242

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas