The Old Farmhouse

BRAY DEDWORTH ROAD SU 97 NW (north side) 10/2 Oakley Green 11.04.72 The Old Farmhouse II*

Hall house, now house. Early C15, extended C16, altered and extended C19 and C20. Part timber frame with painted brick and render infill, part brick. Old tile gabled roofs of different heights. Irregular plan of different builds; the earliest 2 framed bays running east-west with a 2 framed bay gabled extension on the west running south forming an L, and a further 2 framed bay gabled extension at right angles on the north. Brick extension forming a double depth plan on the west. 2 storeys. 1 chimney on ridge with 4 attached shafts and small offset heads, one tall chimney with clay pot on side wall of earliest build. Scattered fenestration mostly of early C20 leaded casements. Entrance (east) front: timber frame exposed. Projecting gable on left. C19, 4-light oriel on first floor on plain brackets and with small pent roof. 2, C19 Gothic-headed windows on ground floor, with interlaced glazing bars and quatrefoil in centre. Tall projecting chimney on north return wall. Right hand section: one small 2-light casement on first floor left, and on right a C17 projecting window, with mullions and transom moulded, but eroded, on moulded cill; supported on carved brackets, of which only one remains. Large late C19 gabled, enclosed entrance porch on the right, timber-framed with purlin ends on elaborately carved brackets. Plank door on left, Gothic-headed window on right with interlaced glazing bars. Two similar windows each side of porch, but set back on main face of building. North front: two gables with timber frame exposed; brick extensions set back at right. Each gable one bay with a 2-light casement winnow on first floor and similar but larger windows on ground floor. Interior: fine timber frame exposed; long arch braces, wide floor joists, principal boom chamfered with bar stops. Inglenook chimney.

Listing NGR: SU9315676534