Perry Childs Farmhouse

TL 72 SW PANFIELD HALL ROAD (south side)

4/13 Perry Childs Farmhouse

GV II

House. C17, altered in C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2 parallel ranges aligned approx. E-W each of 2 bays, facing E, each with an internal stack in the front bay against the outside wall. External stack on right return wall of rear bay, enclosed by single-storey lean-to extension. C20 lean-to conservatory on left return wall. 2 storeys with attics. 4-window range of late C19 sashes grouped in pairs. One C19 casement in each gable. C20 door in gabled porch. Chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops in each floor of each range, joists plastered to the soffits. The structure incorporates re-used timber from a medieval house. Left ground floor hearth has 2 salt recesses with V heads, and a chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops. In the attic there is a door of 3 plain rebated boards, C17 or later, on re-used medieval strap hinges with incised lines.

Listing NGR: TL7274624965