Abbey Farmhouse

TM 39 NW MUNDHAM BROOKE ROAD

3/43 Abbey Farmhouse 5.9.60 II House. (The descriptions of this house and White House Farmhouse Item No. 3/42 q.v. are transposed on the previous list). Dated 1654 on timber lintel of ground floor window, perhaps incorporates earlier work. Rendered timber frame, brick. Tile roof. 2-cell plan with wing to rear and a stair outshut in the angle; outshut to rear; C18 range to south gable. Facade of 2 storeys with irregular fenestration. All windows are of oak, inserted in restoration of 1970's. Brick plinth. 3 casements to ground floor, the 2 to left having timber pediments, are dated. 6 panel door. 4 mullioned windows to first floor. Stacks to rear; that to left repaired, incorporated into single storey and attic projecting gabled range with casements to ground and attic floors. Small 2 storey brick gabled stair outshut with 6 panel door to right in moulded jambs, with 2 orders of ovolo moulding. Large gabled dormer with 2 orders of ovolo moulding to bressumer beam. Right hand stack with repaired twin octagonal shafts with star tops, incorporated into outshut. North gable wall has 6 panel door. 2 mullioned windows to gable. C18 dairy to south, facade with plank door and louvred window. Pantile roof and shaped gable. Interior: Ovolo moulded transverse beam to northern ground floor room. Brick fireplace with moulded 4-centred arch. Blocked window with cavetto moulded mullions in rear wing and to stair by south stack. Cavetto moulding to blocked mullioned window in rear wall of outshut. Butt purlin roof with curved wind braces.

Listing NGR: TM3333397775