Beaumont Hill Farmhouse

TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN

SP17SW BROAD LANE, Wood End 652-1/2/218 (South side (off)) Beaumont Hill Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Probably early C18 with earlier origins and later additions and alterations; bell to turret inscribed 'JS 1715'. Reddish brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings and gabled plain-tile roof, timber cupola with lead roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 3 first-floor windows; front range is one room deep with rear corridor and ranges to rear. Ashlar band. Entrance to right: 8-panel, part-glazed door between 6-pane side lights and with 16-pane overlight under flat arch with raised keystone. To left of this a 2-storey canted bay with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes to each floor. Otherwise ground- and first-floor windows are pairs of 4/4 sashes with horns, those to ground floor are taller; second floor has 3 pairs of 2/4 sashes with horns; all under flat arches with keystones and sills. Dentil eaves cornice. Raised gables with copings and kneelers. External end and ridge stacks. INTERIOR: beams to rear range with roll-moulded chamfers, those to front range at left have ogee stops. Cornices to front rooms, 6-fielded-panel doors, some with HL-hinges. Room to left at front has inglenook fireplace with bressumer beam and cupboards to sides of stack. Attic stairs have stick balusters. First floor: fireplace with dentil cornice, some plank doors with strap hinges. Rear range has two 2-panel doors, cheese room with gypsum plaster floor. Ventilation chutes to end walls. Forms a group with Threshing Barn (qv). (Victoria County History: Warwickshire: 165-175; Burman J: The Story of Tanworth-in-Arden: Birmingham: 1930-: 125).

Listing NGR: SP1137471740