Bittell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bromsgrove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1952. Farmhouse. 9 related planning applications.
Bittell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- brooding-portal-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromsgrove
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bittell Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse, with alterations made in the mid-19th century and the late 20th century. Constructed primarily of brick with stone dressings and a tile roof, it follows an L-shaped layout with ranges extending to the south-east and north-east. The front range contains two rooms on either side of a stair hall, with main stacks at the rear of this range. The north-west room originally served as the kitchen.
The garden front (facing south-west) is two storeys high with a gable-lit attic, featuring stone quoins and a string course. It has three windows: two four-light casements flank a three-light casement, all with segmental stone keystones above. The central ground-floor entrance has a wooden doorcase and a flat canopy supported by consoles, now covered by a 20th-century flat-roofed conservatory.
Inside, a rear ground-floor room retains small, square panelling with a frieze. A first-floor room to the right also features 17th-century panelling, including an arcaded overmantel. The fireplace in this room has a tiled hearth containing late 15th-century Malvern school tiles, including a design inscribed "Sir John Talbot," reportedly brought from Grafton. The staircase is original, with turned balusters and a moulded hand rail.
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