Eardisley Wooton Farmhouse

EARDISLEY CP A 4111 (east side) SO 35 SW 3/46 Eardisley Wooton Farmhouse 19.8.53 GV II Farmhouse. Probably C13, altered C17 and mid-C19. Roughcast timber-frame with painted rubble refacing and rubble addition; stone tiled roofs laid in diminishing courses, half-hipped at west end and having a rubble ridge stack with a brick shaft and also large brick ridge stack. Cruck hall house of four framed bays aligned roughly east/west and including a through-passage bay. In the C17 the upper floor was inserted together with a chimney backing onto the passage and a two-bay cross-wing was built at the west end and a large chimney at the junction of the two ranges. Single storey and attic. Framing: not exposed externally. North front elevation: main range has two 3-light casements and a 2-light casement on the ground floor, a C19 gabled dormer with a 2-light casement, a sky-light and two partly-glazed doors. Also doorway in cross-wing gable end to left. Attic light at east end. Interior: cruck trusses with collars survive and large wall-framing panels also visible in main range. Doorway at northern end of passage has a two- centred arched head formed by massive timbers and a square-headed doorway has been inserted within it. There is also internal wall-framing within the cross- wing and the chimney has a pair of large fireplaces with chamfered timber lintels. (RCHM, III, p 55, item 30; BoE, p 120; Alcock, NW: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981; Wood, ME: C13 Domestic Architecture in England, 1950).

Listing NGR: SO3085650586