Lower Silkstead Farmhouse And Adjoining Barn

SU 42 SW HURSLEY POLES LANE A31

7/20 Lower Silkstead 9/6/82 Farmhouse and adjoining barn II

House and attached barn converted to one residence. C15 & C16, altered C19, restored 1983. Timber-frame with brick infill, old plain tile roof. and weatherboarded timber-frame barn, partly rebuilt in brick with brick additions. 3 bay, 1½ storey barn part along road with 2 bay, 2 storey cross-wing at left end, probably originally 3 bay C15 house with added C16 cross-wing. Road elevation has C20 brick plinth wall to main barn part, weatherboarded with a small C20 1 & 2-light casement and 3 velux windows in hipped roof. Cross-wing has exposed timber-frame with brick infill with jettied 1st floor. On ground floor early C19 2-light cast-iron lozenge pane casement with Victorian letter box beside in brick pier. On 1st floor C19 oriel window with carved finials to brackets, hipped roof and 3 similar cast- iron casements. Tile-hung gable with small casement and carved bargeboards. Left side of cross-wing similar with C19 full height projecting porch with ornate bargeboards, tile-hung 1st floor. Large central stack of cruciform section to cross-wing.

Listing NGR: SU4267425540