Upper House And Attached Outbuildings

WORMSLEY CP - SO 44 NW 4/88 Upper House and 20.2.53 attached outbuildings

GV II Farmhouse, hop kiln and byre. Probably C17, C18 and C19 with later alterations. Timber-frame with brick nogging and weatherboards. Sandstone rubble with tile, Welsh slate and corrugated iron roofs. L-plan with arms extending roughly southward and eastwards, the house forming the first arm and the byre the last with C19 hop kiln at their junction. Two storeys. West elevation has house to centre and right with gable front to far right. House has 3-light glazing bar casement in dormer to centre and four con- temporary casements to gable front. Ground floor has similar casements. Three entries, a ledged door to left and centre with a glazed door to gable front. Truncated side stack to left. Frame is 2 to 3 1/2 square panels high between and above brick underpinning. To left of house is framed motion now a garage which joins hipped-roofed hop kiln with sandstone rubble walls. Byre attached to east of hop kiln has sandstone rubble first floor and weatherboarded timber-framed left. Four structural bays. South elevation has two openings to tollet and five entries to ground level most with ledged doors. Frame is two square panels high from sandstone to wall-plate. Interior of house has fireplace in southern principal room with chamfered stone jambs and oak lintol. North end of main range has cusped, wind-braces perhaps re- used. Byre has queen strut trusses with V-struts above collars. One gable has lozenge pattern and scissor struts. (RCHM, Vol III, p 214-15).

Listing NGR: SO4238047937