Sole Farm House

SU 47 SW 12/14

WELFORD WICKHAM HEATH Sole Farm House

II

Farmhouse, now house. C17 with C18 refacing and C19 additions. Flint with brick dressings, brick and timber frame with brick infill; plain tiled roofs. Two bay house with two bay cross wing and stair tower. To rear surrounded by later additions. One and a half storeys with three gabled eaves dormers to west, and flanking and central ridge stacks.

West elevation: Main body of house to left; facing of flint with red brick strips forming pattern of rectangles with door under gabled porch to left, one casement and one glazing bar sash in centre and door under lean-to porch adjacent to cross wing. Eaves dormers above and ridge higher than that of cross wing; Cross wing to right: brick facing, one casement to each floor.

South elevation: two bays of timber frame with straight braces to left and brick extension with red stretchers and grey headers to right. Large, English bond C17 brick stack across left-hand bay of framing. C20 door and casement in central bay with two-light casement over.

Interior: altered, but much framing still visible. Central stack has large fireplaces, that in the kitchen with moulded cambered beam and shelf over. Staircase, C17 framed newel stair with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SU4113671170