Hall Farmhouse Or Home Farmhouse

TF 72 NE 6/25

HOUGHTON NEW HOUGHTON Hall or Home Farmhouse

(formerly listed as Hall Farmhouse including barns)

5.6.53

G.V. II

Farmhouse. Mid C18, perhaps by William Kent. Whitewashed brick, smut pantiled roof. 2 storeys with attics, symmetrical double pile plan. 2 storeys with attics, with central pedimented 3 storey gable,5 bays. North front has 4 ground and 5 first floor sashes with glazing bars. All openings under segmental arches with single keystone. 2 outer bays recessed, central bay brought forward. Central 6 panel door with 4 glazed panels under segmental arch with 3 keystones. Raised chamfered brick quoins to outer and central bay angles. Eaves cornice, continued as platband across centre bay with central segmental arched lunette above. 2 flat roofed dormers. Pedimented gable has moulded base and verges, mouldings returned along sides. 2 lean-to single storey wings to east with single sash with glazing bars, to west with 2-light casement. Double pile gables have 2 end stacks on each and central lead down-pipes with Walpole crest on hoppers. Rear repeats front facade arrangement. 2 ground floor tripartite and 4 first floor sashes with glazing bars, pedimented gable with lunette. Distinctive Palladian plan and forms identify as an example of mid C18 Houghton estate architecture. Balanced by Village Farmhouse (q.v.) on the east side of New Houghton House but not barn (q.v.) appears as block plan in Isaac Ware Plans .. Houghton (1735) 1750 ed.

Listing NGR: TF7873827851