Farmhouse At Bury Farm

TL 4030 HORMEAD HORMEAD DANE (North side) Great Hormead

11/86 Farmhouse at 22.2.67 Bury Farm (formerly listed as Bury Farm House)

GV II

House. Early C17, C19 rear range, renovated in late C20. Timber frame roughcast with steep old-red tile roof banded with scalloped tiles on rear slope. Parallel white gault brick rear range with red tiled roof. A 2-storeys, 2-cells, interior-chimney, lobby-entry plan house facing S, with 2-storeys brick parallel rear range probably replacing a rear stair tower. 1½ storeys lower kitchen at E end of front range with an external gable chimney and oven projection. Neat symmetrical S front with fine tall red brick chimney of conjoined diagonal shafts. Bellcast eaves and flush wooden casement windows of horizontal proportions. A 5-light and 2 3-light windows on 1 floor, and 2 5-light rectangular bay windows flanking the half-glazed panelled door with large flat hood on poles. The rear wing has recessed sash windows under segmental arches and 2 wall-head chimneys on the back wall. The interior has exposed main frame, chamfered axial beams with hollow stops, open fireplaces, plastered Tudor arched chamfered fireplace in W room on Ground Floor. Half-glazed corner cupboard in kitchen with shaped shelves. Formerly The Tithe Farm, then Hormeadbury Farm after 1812. (Jackson (1981)15).

Listing NGR: TL4016230047