Church View Farmhouse

SK 0624-0724 ABBOTS BROMLEY C.P. GOOSE LANE (East side)

16/32 Church View Farmhouse

GV II

Former Inn, now farmhouse. Early C18. Red brick; clay tile roof with crow-stepped gables; brick integral end stack and ridge stacks. Roughly T-shape, 4-cell lobby-entry plan with front projecting wing to west side. One storey and attic with stepped eaves bands; roughly 1:1:2 bays, casements, those to the 2 right hand bays have segmental heads and flank a boarded door with segmental head, gabled dormers over, blind bay to left, and gabled wing to left of centre with board door, attic window to left and off-centre end stack to right. Interior: Central timber framed partition dividing the house into service rooms to the north and living rooms to the south. Service rooms: Dairy to north, entered from the kitchen which is housed in the projecting wing and which gives access to 2 staircases immediately south of the dairy leading respectively to the upper floor and the cellar, and also to the hall. Living rooms: Hall to north with doors at each end of north wall leading respectively to the kitchen and to a pantry or small parlour, inglenook fireplace to south with doors to each side communica- ting respectively with a staircase leading to upper floor, and the parlour via the entrance lobby; panelled partition to room above the hall; chamfered and stopped beams; interrupted tie-beam roof truss. Formerly the Cock Inn.

Listing NGR: SK0770124402