Yarhampton House

SO 76 NE ASTLEY CP YARHAMPTON

3/63 Yarhampton House

12,11.51

• II*

Former farmhouse, now house, dated 1610, restored C20. Timber-framed with part painted brick on ground floor, painted brick and lath and plaster infill, tiled roofs. Central floored hall of 2 bays with projecting flanking wings of 3 bays, entrance to right of centre, external stacks, 2 to right wing and 2 to left wing, one at gable. 2 storeys with attics, 2-light leaded casements one in each gable and in gabled dormer above porch; first floor has one renewed 3-light mullioned and transomed oriel supported on carved decorative brackets, left end bracket bears date; one similar window above porch; one 5-light ovolo moulded mullioned and transomed window in right wing also supported on carved decorative brackets. Ground floor of left wing has C19 3-light window with cambered head, central block projects on ground floor with lean-to roof and gabled porch, one 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window, to left of entrance C20 glazed door. Right wing has renewed 4-light mullioned and transomed window. Fenestration leaded throughout, some renewed. Right wing bears traces of other blocked window openings: Upper external stack of right wing has 3 conjoined star-plan shafts. The rear of left wing is partly obscured by late C18 brick extension, rear of right wing has garage insertion. Framing: close-studding with mid-rail to ground floor, 3 panels above with diagonal bracing and V-struts in gables. Interior contains fine cross-beamed ceiling and stone flagged floor in hall with former external wall removed when forward projecting lean-to with porch added now supported on 2 C19 cast iron piers; C17 oak framed newel staircase with twisted balusters complete from ground to first floor. (VCH, Vol IV, p 231.) A good example of a large early C17 timber-framed farmhouse.

Listing NGR: SO7761767392