Barn House

SP 1037 BROADWAY CP HIGH STREET (north side) 9/63 No 152 (Barn House) 30.7.59 GV II House. 1703, extended c1908 by A N Prentice, and subsequently by Guy Pemberton. Limestone ashlar and snecked rubble with stone slate roof. Two storeys with attic. Original house of three bays, with drip course and 2-light rebated and chamfered mullioned windows. The three hipped dormers have ball finials. The door, in the middle bay, has a cyma-moulded surround. Above is a plaque inscribed: "HBW 1703" and a Phoenix fire insurance plaque. Gables coped with chimneys. To each side there is a slightly lower bay added by Prentice. The first floor windows are partly within gables. The windows are of four lights except for the first floor one at the left, which is of three lights. The right-hand gable is coped and has a weathervane. At the right is a single-storey link canted bay to join the main house to a former barn. This was added by Pemberton and has a 3-light mullioned window flanked by oval windows and has a door at the left with cyma surround. The gable of the barn, at the right, is half-hipped and has a window of five Tudor-arched lights with two transoms. The former barn doorway, in the west wall and visible at the rear of the house, has been filled by a bay window with curved sides. Above is a gable with lunette. Interior: both ground floor rooms of original house have chamfered spine beams. The left hand room has exposed common joists. The stair has a closed string and turned balusters. The former barn has a moulded stone fireplace with canted head. It is open to the roof and has tie-beam trusses with collars and struts, partly renewed in softwood.

Listing NGR: SP1036737624