Barn Adjoining On North Chapel Farmhouse

TRING RURAL CHAPEL END LANE SP 9013 (South side) Wilstone 10/118 No. 7 (Chapel Farmhouse) and 23.4.85 barn adjoining on N (Formerly listed as No 7 (Chapel End Farm) and barn adjoining on North) GV II*

House, sometime a vicarage, and adjoining barn. C16 N and W wings, early C18 main range, windows in S front opened c.1962. Timber framed N and W wings and barn with weatherboarding, N wing red brick cased, red brick main range with hipped slate roof and plaster coved eaves cornice. Old red tile roofs to wings. A fine L-shaped early Georgian 2-storeys house facing E with a garden front facing S incorporating a 2 storeys older W range and N range with kitchen open to the roof. 5 windows symmetrical E front with central door and tall sash windows with 6/6 panes and box sashes under gauged flat arches. Similar S garden front mostly of blind recesses but with old ovolo-moulded glazing bars in one window. Contemporary interior with moulded-string early C18 stair at rear with turned balusters, raised and fielded panelling, shutters, and 2-panel doors, H_ hinges, and case locks. The N range has kitchen and scullery formed from a single stone-floored room open to roof, with open fireplace partly infilled and C17 door about 3M above floor to right of chimney. This is on a winding staircase in the older part of the house with old moulded plank doors with iron bands. (VCH(1908)282a).

Listing NGR: SP9043513780