Pitch Farmhouse

SO 45 NW DILWYN CP A 4112 (south side) 4/10 Pitch Farmhouse

2.9.66

GV II

Farmhouse. C17, with some mid-C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Timber-frame with painted brick infill on a painted brick base with slate roof. L-plan, main limb to north, subsidiary to east. Gable-end stack of rubble with rectangular brick shafts. West (garden) front of two storeys with attic lit by two C20 gabled dormers. First floor has three windows, two 3-light case- ments and a 2-light casement to the right, all with plank weatherings. The central window preserves one light with rectangular leaded quarries. Ground floor has two 3-light casements with a projecting porch to right. The entrance has a ledged and boarded door in the left-hand return wall of porch. Framing three square panels high to subsidiary range, other range four square panels high to the first floor. Gable-end trusses have two struts to the collar with V-struts in apex. Interior has exposed chamfered and stopped beams. In the subsidiary range there is a doorway with moulded frame and moulded battens to the door, bearing the inscription, "When you go to bed God send you good rest" on the lintel. (RCHM, 3, p 42, no 24).

Listing NGR: SO4248056040