Dean Hill Farmhouse West

BETCHTON C.P. NEWCASTLE ROAD SJ 75 NE 6/15 Dean Hill Farmhouse West (formerly listed as Dean 14/2/1967 Hill FArmhouse (West Farm))

• II*

Farmhouse. Late C16/early C17. Timber framed with wattle and daub infill and rendered infill and brick facing with a plain tile roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: the whole of the front, save for the plinth, is covered in pebble-dash, deep rendered plinth with a projecting porch wing at centre which has a central C20 half-glazed door at centre with a single light window to its left. To the first floor is a 3-light casement window below which are two exposed portions of timber framing inscribed RANDLE:RODE and below this AN:DO/1684. To the attic above is a 3-light C19 attic casement window with a moulded kingpost above. To left of this is a 3-light C19 casement window to the ground floor and at right a 2-light first floor casement window. The right hand side has a 2-light casement window to the basement, a 3-light casement window to the ground floor and attic and a 2-light window to the first floor. The left-hand gable end has a deep plinth supporting close studding with moulded middle rails to both floors and a similar bressumer between the floors and to the gable. Angle braces to left and right and some decorative framing to the gable and first floor. C20 four-light casement windows to the ground, first and attic floors. Interior: Ingle-nook fireplace to one ground floor room with chamfered bressumer and chamfered ceiling beams. One plank door. The dining room has an ingle nook fireplace with ovolo moulded bressumer and smoke hood. End-stopped ceiling beams with end-stopped rafters between. Two plank doors. Staircase with moulded hand-rail and splat balusters moulded on the slope.

Listing NGR: SJ7808459423