Home Farmhouse And Attached Former Malthouse

ADMINGTON

SP24NW Home Farmhouse and attached former 1912-1/6/6 malthouse 06/02/52 (Formerly Listed as: ADMINGTON Home Farmhouse and barn adjoining on north)

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Farmhouse. C17, with C19 alterations. Limestone ashlar and dressed stone; steeply pitched renewed tile roof with coped gables and brick end stacks, the shaft to left renewed. 2-unit plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window range with lower 3-window range to left. Entrance to left of centre has 6-flush-panel door, recessed-chamfered light to right with leaded glazing; ground floor has two 3-light casements with leaded glazing under timber lintels; 1st floor has two 2-light leaded casements under timber lintels; signs of alteration to window openings, including internal evidence. Range to left has dressed stone on ashlar plinth which extends beyond present return; entrance with plank door in chamfered opening has window to each floor to left with heavy wood frames, and 2 windows to right, one originally an entrance, with 2-light casements. Right return has later brick external stack obscuring blocked recessed-chamfered windows with labelmoulds, one with scratched date: 1703, probably date of blocking. Rear has dressed stone to 1st floor; blocked central entrance and flanking 3-light recessed-chamfered-mullioned windows with labelmoulds, the 1st floor with central single light and 2-light window to right; range to right has entrance with plank door and 2-light casement to right, and 2-light mullioned window, 1st floor with 2-light leaded casement. Former malthouse projects to right end has half-hipped gable and C19 slate-roofed lean-to outshut to inner return, next to former 1st floor entrance; 2 tiers of square openings to each return, some retaining wood frames and a few with catches for shutters; end has large inserted opening with small opening above. INTERIOR: house has some chamfered spine beams, one to room to left with stop-chamfers to one side, stop-chamfered joists and large fireplace with cornice and side cupboard; bread oven to rear; later staircase and partition walls; roughly chamfered tie beams and principals. Malthouse has trusses with curved bases; 2nd floor only remains, with chamfered beams and gypsum covering; end has furnace and coved brick structure supporting drying floor with pierced tiles. HISTORY: a maltster was recorded at the farm until 1870s.

Listing NGR: SP2008646046