Betton Strange Farmhouse

SJ 50 NW; 3/52

BERRINGTON C.P., BETTON STRANGE

Betton Strange Farmhouse

GV

II

Farmhouse. Early to mid-C18 incorporating parts of probably C16 or C17 house and with late C19 and late C20 alterations and additions. Red brick with timber-framed core; plain tile roofs, hipped to east. L-plan; C18 range with remodelled C16 or C17 flush gabled cross-wing to east. Two storeys and gable-lit attic. South front: two plat bands, low-stepped parapeted gable end to left; integral brick end stack to left. Integral brick lateral stack to front at right, integral brick lateral stack at rear; integral brick end stacks to cross-wing, truncated at rear. 3-window front; first-floor 3-light wooden casements, late C19 to right with depressed relieving arches and late C20 to left; late C19 gabled brick former porch between first and second windows from left with 2-light segmental-headed casement to front and C20 casement replacing former doorway in right- hand return front; inserted C20 half-glazed door to left; cross wing with plat band, segmental-headed blind window on each floor, first- floor C20 casement to right and ground-floor C20 casement to left. C20 addition at rear of C18 range. INTERIOR: C18 roof has collar and tie-beam trusses and pairs of staggered purlins; late C16 or C17 former external lateral stack to cross-wing now enclosed in C18 roof, consisting of two star-shaped shafts with oversailing tops; first-floor exposed framing of former external wall of cross wing consisting square panels and angle braces; chamfered and stopped beams; early C18 corner fireplace.

Listing NGR: SJ5096209247