Upper Nash Farmhouse

SO 36 SW RODD, NASH AND NASH LITTLE BRAMPTON CP

4/28 Upper Nash Farmhouse

• II

Farmhouse. C15 core, remodelled during mid-C16 and extended during C17, mid-C19 addition and alterations. Timber-framed with wattle-and-daub infill, sandstone rubble plinth, rendered to north-west front, and Welsh slate roof. Irregular plan with earlier core of three, possibly four bays, aligned north-east/south-west with a central bay heightened and gabled to both fronts and roofed across the line of the building during C16; house further extended to the north-west and to south-west, main axial stack with further stacks at south-west gable end and to north-west front of north-east end. Two entrances to south-east front. Single storey and attic with two-storey heightened roof. South-east front: single-storey section to left with one 2-light casement window and one small single light; central gabled two-storey section with one 2-light glazing bar casement window; central doorway with ledged door flanked by side lights, gable to right with two 2- light casement windows and similar windows flank ledged door to ground floor. The upper storey of the altered bay projects to the north-west front and has a decorative bressummer with carved pendants, and plain brackets. The square panelled timber-framing is largely revealed to the south-east front. The interior is said to retain parts of two cruck trusses visible in the centre of the building and two C17 decorative overmantels, also plastered ceiling in the cross-wing. (RCHM, Vol III, p 176).

Listing NGR: SO3077862290