Baxter Wood Farmhouse

BRANDON AND BYSHOTTLES TOLL HOUSE ROAD NZ 24 SE (South side, off)

4/17 Baxter Wood Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C17-early C18 with mid C19 alterations and refenestration. Coursed rubble with some old brick infill at gables. Pantiled roof and rebuilt brick chimneys. North wing and later west wing form 2-storey L-plan house. Re-entrant faces of garden front each have 2 bays: C19 part-glazed, 6-panel door in west wing; mainly 4-pane sashes; lateral stack to north wing. South and east gables have flush alternate quoins (those on east gable are long and thin). East gable has low plinth and possibly C17 oak window frame to first floor. Steeply-pitched roof has coped gables and end chimneys. Rear of west wing has infilled north bay with inserted 4-pane sashes. Small, possibly C17 first-floor oak window frame to south. Interior. Late C17, closed-string, dogleg staircase of 2 flights plus landing rail, in west wing, has squat turned balusters and a square-section moulded handrail. Wood winder stair rises inside east gable of north wing. Peter Smart, the Puritan, is believed to have died at Baxter Wood circa 1625.

Listing NGR: NZ2546342312