Batchcott Farmhouse

RICHARDS CASTLE

SO47SE BATCHCOTT 482-1/8/158 Batchcott Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C17 and C18 with C19 alterations. Painted timber-frame with painted and unpainted panels set on stone plinth. Stone rubble cross wing. Plain-tile roofs. Projecting stone ridge stack with brick shaft to main range now enclosed in extension. Stepped stone eaves chimney to cross wing with diminished brick shaft. EXTERIOR: single storey and attic. 2-window range with casement windows at ground floor and C19 half-dormers penetrating the eaves above. 2 plain boarded doors in plain door frames. Openings all with upper weathering-boards and set in restored square framing 4 panels high with raised eaves. Gable-end return to right masked by central chimney and single-storey range with altered truss showing raised eaves to front and back. To right are single-storey service bays with plain door with top lights and side lights set in rectangular thin-section timber-frame 2 panels high. To left is C18 cross wing with gable end. Single window at first and ground floors with segmental stone lintels and multi-pane casements. Rear: bricked-up ground-floor door set in square framing 3 panels deep and with unpainted brick infill panels. Single-storey projecting tiled gabled extension. Cross wing gable-end to right with single multi-pane casement with segmental stone arch. Single-storey service bays to left. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO4919871071