Colliers Oak Farmhouse

FILLONGLEY FILLONGLEY ROAD SP28NE (North side) 6/33 Colliers Oak Farmhouse GV II House. 1587 extended on the front C18-C19. Timber-frame, with C20 render, on sandstone plinth. Plain-tiled gabled roof with ridge stack of coursed and squared sandstone with 3 red brick shafts set diagonally. This stack is now external following the demolition in c.1938 of the parlour end of the house. The west gable has a plojecting stack also of coursed sandstone, incised with the date and 3 similar red brick shafts set diagonally. Original plan of 3 units with through-passage at rear of stack. One storey and attic. 2 gable dormers, C19, and 3 wood casements at ground floor, all C20. In C18-C19 a range to the front was added. Brick, rendered, and plain-tiled roof. 2 storeys. 2 C20 first floor casements and 2 at ground floor. East gable end of 1587 house has inglenook hearth at ground floor and on first floor a depressed arch with cyma moulding on high base to a chamber hearth. Interior: Original openings remain to the through-passage. Another chamber hearth with similar sandstone and moulded depressed arch at first floor. At west end a ground floor inglenook and above a third hearth of similar moulding. Timber-framing exposed. Wall framing of substantial scantling. Cambered tie beams with curved bracing, jowled heads to the posts. Wall plate has short splayed scarf joints and there are vertical Queen struts from tie beam to collar and principal rafter. Through purlin roof. At the west end the ground floor inglenook has an aumbry of sandstone in the side wall. There is a rebate for a door. In the roof the initials TSMS were made in pebbles in a partition wall. They are the same as occur in the plinth of the stable block; dated 1611 (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SP2570687772