Common Farmhouse

STUDLEY COMMON LANE SP06NE Mappleborough Green 1/212 Common Farmhouse 01/02/67

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C16 with C17 additions to right, and late C17 additions to rear (VCH); partly refaced and altered C18/C19; C20 alterations. Timber framed: close studding, square framing and ornamental panelling with lath and plaster and whitewashed brick infill. Largely rebuilt or refaced in whitewashed brick; some roughcast. Old tile roof; brick internal, ridge and end stacks. Complex plan. Main range one storey and attic, wing 2 storeys; 3-window range. Main range has central entrance with late C20 half-glazed door and open timber and tiled porch. Second entrance to right has plank door and tile hood. Former door, now window, in re-entrant angle. Irregular fenestration: one C19 casement, and C20 leaded lights. Gabled half-dormer. Central stack of thin bricks has 2 shafts with V-pilasters. End stack. Far-projecting wing on left. Jettied first floor underbuilt in roughcast brick. First floor has herringbone framing; gable has ornamental panelling, with roughcast infill. C19 three-light wood mullioned and transomed windows with painted latticed lights. Return sides have close studding and small 2-light wood mullioned leaded window. Right side has internal stack with C19 shaft. Left return side has C18 staircase projection, and some square framing beyond. Right return side of main range has framed gable. To rear: Some exposed framing. Gables. Interior: Exposed framing. Queen post roofs. 2 rooms in left range have C16 fireplaces with chamfered stone lintels. One room has C16 stud partition opened up into adjoining room having open fireplace with chamfered bressumer. Stop chamfered ceiling beams and joists. Flagstone floors. Kitchen has open fireplace. Small early mid C18 quarter tarn staircase with turned balusters and some early C18 panelling. Winder and straight flight staircases with old boards. First floor room in left wing has early/mid C18 panelling with simple pilasters flanking simple stone chimneypiece. Room with C18 panelled dado, Cheese room has composition floor. Old plank doors with strap hinges and C18 fielded 2- and 4-panelled doors with H and H-L hinges throughout.

(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.III, p.176).

Listing NGR: SP0892366948