The Royal Oak Farmhouse

SJ 63 SW; 8/103

MORETON SAY C.P., BLETCHLEY, The Royal Oak Farmhouse

10.02.59

GV

II

Farmhouse, latterly inn. Circa 1600 with mid-to late C19 addition. Timber-framed with plastered infill on painted dressed sandstone plinth. Extended in painted brick. Plain tile roof. Framing: close-studding (with middle rail to ground-floor) with long straight tension braces. Jettied first floors to cross wings with moulded bressumers and carved scrolled brackets and jettied gables with carved brackets supporting bressumers with carved vine-trails and moulded bottom edge. H-plan; one framed bay with projecting gabled cross wings of two framed bays. Addition of one framed bay in angle at rear. One storey and attic. Large dressed yellow/grey sandstone stack behind ridge off-centre to left with rebuilt or heightened brick top section, brick stack to rear of left-hand cross wing, and brick ridge stack to right-hand cross wing. Large central c.1600 dormer with C19 two-light wooden casement and jettied gable with moulded bressumer. 1-:1-:1- window front; late C19 two-and 3-light wooden casements, some with triangular upper lights. Rendered gabled porch in angle of right-hand cross wing with C19 four-panelled door (glazed top panels). Blocked c.1600 first floor windows in returns of cross wings (three lights to left and 2 + 2 lights to right). Evidence of former ground-floor wooden oriel windows to cross windows (see mortices on underside of bressumers). C19 addition to left with painted imitation framing. Segmental-headed 2-light wooden casements in left-hand return front. Rear: two gables to left with collar and tie-beam trusses, that to right with close studding. Lean-to additions. INTERIOR only partly inspected. Left-hand ground-floor room with chamfered ceiling beams. Old boarded doors with wrought-iron strap hinges and L-and H-hinges.

Listing NGR: SJ6223933639