Loxley Farm

TRING RURAL CHAPEL LANE SP 8915 (South side) Long Marston 8/121 No. 1 (Loxley Farm) 30.11.66 (formerly listed as Loxley Farmhouse) GV II Farmhouse, now a private house. Early C16, floors in main range, central chimney and rear lean-to mid C17, C18 brick casing to front. Timber frame on brick sill with brick infill, red brick front with grey headers. Steep old red tile roofs. A large 2-storeys, lobby entry plan house facing N with 2-storeys and attic service crosswing at W end projecting to front and small C19 single-storey hip-roofed extension at E end. N front has plinth, 2 flush 3-light casement windows to each floor and windows to E extension and each floor of crosswing. Segmental arches and external shutters to ground floor and central 6-panel raised and fielded door with moulded hood on shaped brackets. Wide arch in plinth over capped well to left of door. Tall axial 3-shafts chimney on joint plinth with joint moulded cap. Polygonal shafts with pilaster strips. Large external chimney and exposed frame on 1st floor of W side of 2-bays W wing. The house appears to have been built partly open to the roof and with a contemporary but structurally independent crosswing. It probably had 2 smoke-bays back-to-back with lobby entrance to side as now. Central truss a closed truss in its upper part, and mid C17 chimney probably re-uses lintel of smoke hood. Hall to W of stack has floor with chamfered and scroll stopped joists carried on massive axial beam with double ovolo chamfer and elaborate 3-bar stops. Similar chamfered joists in W room (parlour) carried on chamfered axial beam with less elaborate stops. Mid C17 brick chimney has clunch jambs to hall fireplace and oven under winding stair at rear. 2-bays W crosswing has flat joists, trimming for stair next present stair in rear E corner, and fine early C17 strapwork carved soffit to crossbeam (? casing). Chamber fireplace over hall has 4-centred moulded brick head and jambs. Clasped-purlin roofs with curved wind braces. The well finished joists over the hall are continued over the rear outshut adjoining as if it was an extension of the room. (RCHM(1911)223 no.6: RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: SP8960415674