Hole Farmhouse Including Attached Barn And Cow Sheds

PRESTON BAGOT

SP16NE Hole Farmhouse including attached 1457-1/2/89 barn and cow sheds 21/02/96

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Farmhouse with attached barn to south-east and cow sheds to west. Probably C17 and C18 additions and later alterations including C20 rebuilding. Timber-framed house and barn with C18 painted brick front facade to house and C20 brick front to barn, with brick cow sheds, plain-tile roofs. L-plan house of 3 units, 5-bay barn with outshut to left, and 6-bay range at rear which comprises dairy, 2-bay pen and 3-bay cow shed. EXTERIOR: farmhouse: one-storey and attic, 3-window range. 2 entrances, off-centre right and left have plank doors under elliptical arches; outer windows are 2-light casements, to centre a 3-light casement with glazing bars (some metal windows), all under elliptical arches. 3 central openings under C20 timber porch with plastic roof. Modillion eaves band. 3 roof dormers have casement windows. End and ridge stacks. Gabled roof continuous over barn. Outshut to right has remains of bread oven. Barn: 5 bays with outshut to rear at left. Central plank divided doors to threshing floor, further double plank doors to left and 2 plank pitching doors. Rebuilt facade in C20 brick. Left gable end has pitching opening under elliptical arch; pigeon landing shelf and openings to gable head. Outshut to left has elliptically-arched opening now blocked in. Cow shed range: 6-bays 2 bays to right have brick infill, otherwise open with brick and timber supports. INTERIOR: farmhouse: room at right has inglenook fireplace with massive bressumer beam, cupboard to left with board door; original plank doors. Room to centre now has panelled dividing wall making 2 smaller units, rear wall and main partition walls have exposed small square panels of timber-framing, inglenook fireplace with bressumer beam, chamfered spine beam; corner cupboard with H-hinges. Another room has exposed timber-framing. 2 staircases, one to rear between right and centre room, one to front between centre and right room. First floor: exposed purlins, tie beam and principal rafters; centre room has extensive timbering to partition wall, tie-and-collar-beam truss with angle struts; rear wall has exposed timber-framing and wall-plate. Barn: square panels of timber-framing almost intact inside the outer walls, intact to front and rear at left. Dividing wall to right (between house and barn) has exposed timbering, with collar-and-tie beam truss with queen posts, 3 further similar trusses, one with queen post, 2 with angle truss, then principal rafters and collar beam; one tier of purlins. Cross beams to threshing floor and further cross-beam to left. Outshut at rear left forms aisle. Cow shed range: probably mid C18: has original collar-and-tie beam trusses with angle struts.

Listing NGR: SP1667765722