Church Farmhouse

SU 31 NE 7/15

NURSLING AND ROWNHAMS CHURCH LANE Church Farmhouse (formerly Manor Farm House)

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House, possibly of late-medieval origin as a timber-framed hall with two- storeyed cross wing at the east end, the oldest parts being c1600, with re- cladding of the late C18 and rear extension as an outshot, later raised to two storeys in the late C19. Walls of brickwork in English bond, some Flemish bond, with cambered arches and rubbed flat arches: the base of the rear wall has massive roughly-coursed stonework. Tile roof, brick dentil eaves. Symmetrical south front of two-storeys, three windows, with single-storeyed (C20) west wing of one window, and a lower two-storeyed east wing of one window. Sashes in exposed frames, ground-floor casements to the wings and windows of the other elevations. 6-panelled door (two top glazed) in a plain frame, within a simple open porch, hidden by a clipped yew surround. The interior has early and late framing, a Tudor doorway, a C17 fireplace, and the remains of a gable, indicating a cross wing. The rear of the house is a lower narrow (forming a double pile) with walls indicating that the present two storeys was formerly single-storeyed, beneath a catslide roof. The stones were quarried from a nearby monastic site.

Listing NGR: SU3622816473