Church Farm House

EAST ILSLEY CHURCH HILL SU 48 SE (West side) 3/33 Church Farm House (formerly included as The Gables) 25.10.51 II House. Early C15 with C16, C17, C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Brick, grey with red dressings and some patterning to south, render to north, English bond red brick to east with some signs of timber framing; timber frame exposed in west gable of main house and in west extension; some stone and flint in altered outbuilding to west. Main house runs east west with four gabled wings at right angles to south, that to east being re-modelled C17 wing; lower part timber framed addition to west, now of one bay but formerly longer, linked to outbuildings remodelled to form living space in C20. 2 storeys, end stack to east, 2 side stacks to north and end stack to west of lower, C17 extension. North Elevation:- one glazing bar sash to each of four gables with stone cills and rubbed brick flat arches, tripartite sash on ground floor in bay to right of centre, 3-light casement on ground floor to far right; entrance of 3-panel double doors under C20 flat canopy on cut brackets in bay to left of centre, lower converted outbuilding to left. South Elevation:- canted bay to left with glazing bar sashes and roof pitch raised above it; two chimneys break forward each with flanking C20 glazing bar sashes, those on first floor breaking eaves; C17 extension breaks forward to right with 2-light casements and catslide roof over outshut. Interior:- some C18 panelled doors still in place; early C17 dogleg stair in C17 cross gabled wing with square moulded newels and turned balusters; roof of 5 bays with double-butt purlins and trusses with redundant crown posts, central truss of scissor construction with cavetto moulding, chamfered and stopped purlins to either side of this all with curved wind braces; rafters replaced at later period.

Listing NGR: SU4930480970