Sprigg'S Farmhouse

BLACKMORE

TL60SW SPRIGG'S LANE 723-1/2/45 (East side) 20/02/76 Sprigg's Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD SPRIGGS LANE, Blackmore Spriggs Farmhouse)

II

House. C16 and C17. Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. C16 2-bay main range facing SW with central stack, and C17 one-bay extension to left, all of one storey with attics. Mid-C17 3-bay cross-wing to right, forming an irregular T-plan, with external stack at right, and C18 lean-to stair annexe in rear angle. C20 ancillary building to right of stack, in contact with it. INTERIOR: the C16 main range has jowled posts, curved tension bracing trenched inside heavy studding, roof not all accessible but apparently of clasped purlin construction. Large wood-burning hearth facing to right, with 2 shouldered niches and 0.33m jambs, the rear jamb having a recessed seat inside. Left hearth occupied by stove. Chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops to right of stack, remainder of floor plastered. The ground-floor partition between this range and the cross-wing has been much altered in C20. Chamfered axial beam in cross-wing, with lamb's tongue and notch stops, usually found c1630. Clasped purlin roof. Shown as Sprigs on Chapman and Andre's road map of 1777.

Listing NGR: TL6126002476