Oak Tree Farm House

BURGATE GREAT GREEN (NORTH WEST TM 07 NE SIDE) 1/8 Oak Tree Farm House 29.7.55 -- II

Farmhouse. C17 origins, raised and cased in C18, part rebuilt, refronted and extended in early C19 for H. Walton. Timber frame to core, red brick casing, white brick refronting and rebuilding, some plastered late timber frame to rear. Slate roof with pantiles to rear. 3 bays with a parallel 2-bay block added to rear. 2 storeys, Ground floor: offset plinth, central entrance with recessed, half glazed door, reeded architrave with a relief panel of a stag, outer pilasters with shaped brackets to a pedimental hood, flanking large recessed tripartite pseudo sashes fixed with casement panes, reeded architraves, gauged brick flat arched heads. First floor glazing bar sashes, that to left pseudo as on ground floor. Windows in left bay are interrupted by floors as original storey heights are retained. Coved eaves. Coped gable parapets with kneelers. Right end external stack with offsets, all white brick. Left end all C18 red brick, tumbled in brickwork, dentilled plat band, pilaster strips, internal stack with white brick capping, ground floor pantiled lean-to outshut. To rear left an early 1 storey and attic colourwashed brick lean-to with an entrance and a segmental headed casement under an open porch, catslide roof. 2 bay block to rear centre and right is brick on ground floor and timber frame on first floor, all plastered, mixed casements an external stack and lean-to outshut to rear, pantiled roof. Interior: entrance straight onto early C19 dogleg staircase with slat balusters, floor has a cross axial chamfered binding beam. Home of H. Walton, painter, b.1745, d.1813. (Davy's British Museum Add. MS, 19218).

Listing NGR: TM0767576399