Farmhouse At Finches Farm

TL 32 SW 4/17 24.11.66

BENINGTON TOWN LANE (south side) Farmhouse at Finches Farm (formerly listed as Finches Farmhouse)

GV II

House. Lower S part early/mid C17, brick N wing of later C18 with facade overlapping older part. Timber framed older part with red brick outshuts to front and rear under steep catslide old tile roof, half-hipped at S. Red brick N part with grey brick flat gauged arches, but grey brick front with red brick gauged arches. Old red tile gambrel roof, hipped at rear: Originally a 3-cell, central-chimney plan house facing E with winding stair beside chimney. 2-storeys and attics, with chamfered axial beams. N parlour end destroyed when C18 N wing built, providing a new entrance hall and stair and 2 lofty rooms with chambers and attics over. Clasped-purlin construction of old roof, altered to butt- purlin adjoining new structure. Symmetrical E front to newer part with 2 large Venetian sash windows on each floor and central entrance. 6-panel moulded door and mutular Doric pilastered doorcase. Small flat topped dormer behind parapet. Unfortunate small window inserted over door. 2 red brick chimneys on N end flanked by blind recesses with gauged brick flat arches. Older part has 3 casement windows and a large red brick chimney rising through the rear roofslope. In the older part are chamfered beams, one with bar stop on 1st floor, chamfered and stopped doorframe on ground floor, bolection moulded door to stair (which has an ogee finial to newel at attic level), and vertically moulded plank doors with H-hinges. In newer N wing is a simple stair, a raised and fielded panelled corner cupboard with fretted frieze in office to left of entrance, and a glazed corner cupboard with shaped shelves and hemicycle head painted with a delicate and accomplished romantic landscape scene with archers and stags. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3055523333