Church Farmhouse

CLEE ST MARGARET

SO58SE Church Farmhouse 482-1/3/115 15/03/74 (Formerly Listed as: Church Farmhouse and Barn)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. C17 with C19 and C20 extensions. Stone rubble with first-floor timber framing. Plain-tiled roofs. Projecting stone stepped eaves stack to north. Integral brick eaves chimney to west. T-shaped plan of main range and cross wing with extension wings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Entrance front to north with stone stack to left and C20 entrance door with casement over to right of main range. Projecting gable-end of cross wing to right with C20 3-light casement below tie beam. Gable-end partly obscured by projecting C20 single-storey extension wing. Gable-end truss with remains of jowled post, cambered tie beam, vertical struts, high collar, window rail, and diagonal struts set within former window opening. Cross wing return side: framed first floor with brick infill on dry stone coursed rubble at ground floor. Framing of square panels with girding beam, studs with middle rails. 2 inserted casements at first floor. C20 3-light casement to ground floor. Rear south gable end: C20 casement each storey with thin plain stone hoodmoulds. Jowled post is only remaining vestige of gable truss. 4 rows of pigeon holes with thin stone ledges in gable apex. Rear of main range has rubble walls with C20 windows and doors. East gable-end of main range: timber-framed with gable-end truss of straight tie beam with single brace and 4 studs below, twin vertical struts framing C20 casement, collar, and 3 vertical struts over. INTERIOR: cross wing with internal square-framed cross-frame with deeply chamfered girding beam. Ground-floor bays with deeply chamfered bridging beams and cross bridging beams, plain square stops to north and ogee-stops to south bays. Main range with plain chamfered mantlebeam with curved turn-down stops. Plain boarded doors with creased boarded doors to ground floor. Cross wing internal truss of braced jowled posts with additional internal tension braces, cambered tie beam, collar and 2 vertical struts. Main range internal truss of straight tie beam interrupted by doorway; collar, and double trenched purlin roof. Church Farmhouse main range connected to C19 outbuilding wing now converted to domestic use.

Listing NGR: SO5648384357