Thelsford Farmhouse

CHARLECOTE

SP25NE A 429 1901-1/2/1 (East side (off)) Thelsford Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. C17 with C18 and C19 additions. Timber-frame with brick infill, part roughcast or painted infill, on brick and stone plinth; brick additions; gabled tile roofs with brick end stacks and stack to one side of ridge. PLAN: L-plan plus C18 south wing and later additions to north. EXTERIOR: west, garden, front of 2 storeys; 3-window range. Gable end of timber-framed wing has roughcast infill, and enriched bracketed barge-boards with finial; entrance to right has doorcase with bracketed open pediment to 4-panel door (2 panels glazed); canted bay window to left has hipped tile roof over 1:2:1-light small-paned glazing with iron opening casement; C20 window above; C18 brick wing to right has stone plinth and applied timber-frame and roughcast; segmental-headed window to ground floor has 3-light glazing with iron opening casement; similar 4-light casement above and gabled roof dormer with enriched barge-boards and finial to 2-light small-paned casement; external end stack with offsets. Small wing to left has applied timber-frame and small window; ridge stack and brick lean-to to end. South front has timber-frame over brick ground floor; entrance to right of centre, and 2 windows with 3-light and 4-light casements; first floor has 3 hipped half-dormers with cross-casements with iron opening casements; lean-to re-entrant block and small-paned casements to C18 wing. Stack to rear of ridge and large external end stack, raised in C19, with offsets. Lower slate-roofed wing to right end has entrance to projecting return. North side has timber-framed wing with brick infill and C20 casements; small C19 gabled wing to right has segmental-headed windows, some exposed timber-framing has 4-light casement, and catslide outshut to left of gabled wing to right end has 3-light casement; outshut to right end wing has 2-light window in former segmental-headed entrance, with leaded casement above. Slate-roofed wing to left end has timber lintels to casements and re-entrant porch; single-storey brick wing with hipped tile roof to end. INTERIOR: stop-chamfered spine beams; exposed square framing to cross walls; one room with large fireplace with cornice; roof has exposed trusses with 3 struts between tie beam and collar; C18 wing has wide floorboards and small late C19 fireplace.

Listing NGR: SP2736158203