Farmhouse At Wakeley Farm

TL 32 NW WESTMILL WAKELEY (south side)

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GV II

2 houses, now one house. Late C16 or early C17, linked in C19. Timber frame roughcast, C18 red brick casing to ground floor at S end bay, C19 grey brick link with stair and front porch. Steep roofs now slated. 2 separate houses built less than 2m apart for separate households to work the same farm. Houses in line facing E with a 3-cell central-chimney house at S, and a T-plan house to N with a crosswing at its S end projecting to front and rear. C19 gabled E porch fronts the infill linking the houses with roof of S house extended to N. 2 storeys, with storage-attic in crosswing of N part with external gable door at rear. Irregular E front with 3 windows to each side of porch. Flush box sash windows with 6/6 panes to S bay with 2 on each floor on gable end. Single-light leaded casement in line with central chimney of S house, 4-light leaded casement window over a triple sash window to right and left of porch and 2-and 3-light similar windows to N part with French windows on ground floor. Gabled grey brick porch with slate roof, heavy cusped bargeboards and carved finial. Gauged pointed arch to doorway and small side windows. Canted bay window with hipped slate roof on N gable. Rear lateral chimney to N house with 8-light mullioned window now a screen in front of later glazing. Interior has exposed beams, double-curved brace in ground floor of S part, fireplace c1700 on ground floor in lateral stack of N part, and 2-light ovolo- moulded C17 window frame in N house. (RCHM Typescript)

Listing NGR: TL3413926815