Outbuildings To East Of Warners Farm

WELLOW

1765/0/10023 WHINWHISTLE ROAD 12-AUG-03 East Wellow (West side) Outbuildings to east of Warners Farm

GV II Northern part former farmhouse later partly adapted to stabling and hayloft, southern part cartshed. Northern part C17 in origin altered in C18 and C19. Southern cartshed built between 1870 and 1896.

Northern part has a C17 timberframed core but C18 exterior of brickwork and tiled roof with one brick chimneystack. One storey and attics with irregular fenestration. EXTERIOR: East elevation right half has two bands of black brick, dentil cornice and quoins and C18 wide wooden casement to ground floor. Left side has two small window openings to a wide blocked opening and triangular buttress. West elevation has doorcase and half-hipped projection, formerly a workhouse or store, with window openings and cambered doorcases. INTERIOR: Part of the timberframed cross frame of C17 date remains with tie beam, midrail and diagonal tension brace, originally filled with wattle and daub but later filled with C18 brick nogging. Roof altered in C18 with clasped purlins, rafters and plaster with laths. Three trusses of the original five survive. C18 fireplace and exposed floor joists, some reused. In the C19 the southern part was converted from domestic use into a hayloft with a raised timber floor inserted to form a hayloft. Some vertical boarding to stables.

Southern part is later C19 attached brick cartshed of three bays in English bond with alternate courses of red and grey brick and tiled roof. Open fronted and supported on wooden piers to west.

[Wessex Archaeology Report Ref:52280.04. March 2003.]