Hauxley Farmhouse Wall And Attached Outbuildings

HAUXLEY HIGH HAUXLEY NU 20 SE 8/141 Hauxley Farmhouse, wall and attached outbuildings GV II

Farmhouse, with yard wall and outbuildings, 1914. Snecked and tooled rubble; tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings; outbuildings yellow Ashington brick. Welsh slate roofs.

2 storeys, 3 + 1 bays. Moulded lst-floor string. Left part has central part-glazed door with 2-light window over; other windows 3-light. Ground floor windows 10-pane sashes, 1st floor 8-pane sashes; all have flat-faced mullions and slightly-projecting sills. Coped gables on moulded kneelers; stepped-and-corniced left end and ridge stacks. Returns show string, similar windows, and slits in gables. Rear elevation shows projecting gabled single- storey wing at each end, with pent-roofed verandah on 2 concrete posts between; cross window above. Rectangular rear yard enclosed by tall flat-coped wall with pent outbuildings against inner face.

Interior: Dining room has original fireplace. Straight 2-flight closed- string stair against rear wall, with stick balusters and moulded handrail.

Note: said to have been built as a model farmhouse, at a cost of £500.

Listing NGR: NU2778403083