Parsonage Farmhouse

SU 3852 HURSTBOURNE TARRANT CHURCH STREET (North Side)

10/82 Parsonage Farmhouse

GV II

House. 1685, and early C19. The east wing of the original house is attached to the much larger unit of the later date, being a replacement of the larger part of the old block, together with an extension to the rear, to form a T-shaped building. Brick, brick and flint, slate and tile. The early C19 front (south) is symmetrical, of 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Slate roof of low pitch. Red brick walls in Flemish bond, with rubbed flat arches, stone cills. Sashes (of 16 panes) in reveals. Tuscan porch of 2 plain columns, architrave, and ½-glazed door with narrow side panes and decorative lower panel, above 8 steps. Set back at the east side the (older) 3 storeyed wing of 1 window has flint walls with brick quoins, flat arches, moulded arrises, 1st floor band, plinth; upper sashes and lower casements (this treatment continues along the east and north sides) with filled openings. The other elevations have hipped tile roofs, walls of horizontal flint panels, brick quoins, cambered openings; large sashes and smaller casements and a Victorian splayed bay, and boarded doors.

Listing NGR: SU3832153091