Wootton Park Farmhouse

WOOTTON WAWEN

SP16SW ALCESTER ROAD 1457-1/4/140 (North West side) Wootton Park Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Probably C16 with later additions and alterations including those late C17, and with brick casings mid C18 and mid C19. Timber-framing to north-west block with painted plaster infill, otherwise painted brick with plain-tile roofs. North-west (left) range and 2 gable-ended ranges to south-east (right). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics to gables, 5 first-floor windows. North-west range has massive corner post to left, with protruding end of spine beam; tie-beam to gable end; square panels of timber-framing to ground floor at gable end and close-studding with tension braces to upper stage of front facade and to gable end; also square panels of framing exposed to front gable of off-centre range. The 2 south-east ranges have internal evidence of timber-framing. Off-centre left entrance has double panelled doors under elliptical arch in gabled porch. Then 4-light, 2-light and 4-light casements with glazing bars. First floor has 3-light, three 2-light and 4-light casements with glazing bars. Attics have two 2-light metal casement windows with external latches. Farmers' fire insurance mark to upper stage, centre. Right gable end has two 2-light casements with glazing bars to first floor and similar window to attic. 2 rear ridge stacks. INTERIOR: north-west range has original staircase which continues to attic and has late C17 handrail in part; massive ground-floor tie-beam has ogee stops; some 6-panel doors; first floor has exposed close-studding; door in attic has HL-hinges, chamfered purlins. South-east ranges have ovolo- and cavetto-moulded beam to first floor; rear first-floor room has barrel-vaulted ceiling; some evidence of timber-framing. Reset Elizabethan panelling in the house c1940 is now in Wootton Wawen parish Church of St Peter (qv). (Victoria County History: Styles P (ed): County of Warwick: Barlichway Hundred: London: 1945-: 197-8; The Wootton Wawen Project: Bassett S: Interim Report: University of Birmingham: 1983-1989: 17).

Listing NGR: SP1420262691