Banktop Farmhouse

SK 13 NW PARISH OF MARSTON MONTGOMERY BOWLING ALLEY LANE 4/48 (East Side) Banktop Farmhouse II

Farmhouse. C17, refronted in C18,with minor later alterations. Timber framing, partly encased and partly rebuilt in red brick with brick dressings. Steeply pitched red plain tile roof with brick gable and ridge stacks. Two storeys plus garrets, four bays with two storey porch. South elevation has two segment headed windows to west, that to east 3-light glazing bar casement, that to west with uneven 2-light glazing bar casement. To east, porch has four-centred arched doorcase with C20 glazed door and beyond, C20 window under segment head. Above, three flat headed shallow glazing bar casement windows, that to west an uneven 2-light window and others 3 light Porch has smaller 3-light casement window. Over the windows, just under the eaves, is a large timber wall plate with evidence of the front wall originally having been a close studded timber frame. Elsewhere in the house the timber frame has been encased, rather than rebuilt. The double purlin roof structure still survives

Listing NGR: SK1348037170