Skates Farmhouse

186/5/10034 02-APR-01

TADLEY SKATES LANE Skates Farmhouse

GV II

House. Circa 15; partly rebuilt C17 and C18; extended late C20. Timber-framed. Flemish bond red brick with vitrefied headers and tile-hanging. Clay plain tile roofs with half-hipped end and small gablets to hipped cross-wing roof. Brick axial and lateral side stacks. PLAN: 2-storey Medieval cross-wing on left; hall on right rebuilt in C17 as 2-storey 1-room plan range with axial stack with straight staircase behind forming entrance lobby. Circa C19 outshut in angle at rear and late C20 single-storey extension on left side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1:2 bay SW front. Late C20 2-light casements, centre first floor blocked; central doorway with plank inner door and small late C20 brick porch. Exposed timber-framing with tension-braces on NW side of cross-wing above late C20 single-storey extension. Rear north east, tile-hung projecting cross-wing on right with main roof carried down over outshut in angle. INTERIOR: Hall has chamfered axial beam with cyma stops, supported at one end on timber corbel and fireplace with chamfered timber bressumer. Cross-wing has broad closely-spaced chamfered floor joists; cross-wing chamber has exposed framing, large curved tension-braces, exposed tie-beams and wall-plates; the hall side of the cross-wing wall has exposed post and large curved braces encrusted with soot from open hearth hall fire; collar-rafter cross-wing roof with intact common-rafter couples, all smoke-blackened. Hall roof has short wind-braces and intact common-rafter couples, all clean.