Cartshed With Loft Over And Attached Farmyard Wall With Outbuildings At Home Farm At Cams Hall

SU 50 NE FAREHAM PORTCHESTER ROAD (south side, off) 21/316 Cartshed with loft over and attached farmyard wall with outbuildings at Home Farm at Cams Hall GV II

Cartshed with loft over and attached farmyard walls and outbuildings. Mid-late C19 (cartshed dated 'HPD 1872'). Cartshed of red brick with blue headers in English bond with plain tile roof; yard wall of red brick in Flemish garden wall bond with cream Beaulieu brick gatepier; outbuilding attached to wall of coursed stone and red brick with collapsed Welsh slate roof. Cartshed: 2 storeys, 6 bays with lean-to on right side and small outbuilding projecting to rear left. Bays arranged near-symmetrically 1:4:1 having, on ground floor, round-cornered piers supporting segmental arches; left bay has external stair, with round- cornered piers, and dentilled band and cornice over archway on right. On first floor outer bays have wide segmental-arched openings as ground floor, and between them paired, round-arched small-paned metal windows; central datestone. Outer bays have piers rising up to flank dentilled parapets. Half-hipped roof, collapsed over left end. Lean-to on right side fronted by archway and dentilled parapet as before, with stair on right leading up to first floor; much of the lean-to collapsed; its right return has 2 reused stone brackets. Rear: earlier plinth; first floor windows as before. Outbuilding projecting on right has raking buttresses, board door with hatch over, and hipped roof. Interior: brick columns support cross-beams; star-braced roof trusses and raking queen struts. Attached to right side of cartshed is yard wall which is approximately 3 metres high with semi-circular brick coping; it curves around and at right end ramps down to gatepier with stone cap. Attached to it is gabled outbuilding which was pointed-arched window, and a doorway in left return. Derelict at time of inspection (October 1989).

Listing NGR: SU5799407358