Fleet Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding

SP4735 ADDERBURY EAST END 7/30 Fleet Farmhouse and attached 08/12/55 outbuilding (Formerly listed as fleet Farmhouse) GV II Farmhouse. Late C17/early C18 in 2 builds. Coursed squared marlstone with wooden lintels; Welsh-slate roof with rebuilt stone stacks. T-plan. 2 storeys plus attic. 2 bays to left of 4-window front are higher and include, in bay 2, an arched Cl9 door below a renewed 3-light casement, and in bay one a blocked first-floor window; bays 3 and 4 have similar renewed casements to both floors plus a blocked stair window. Steep-pitched roof, with gable parapets and projecting moulded kneelers, has a large stack at junction of levels. Left gable wall and rear of higher section have further renewed casements but retain 2-light stone-mullioned cellar windows; right gable has an old leaded casement, and rear of lower section has 4 more, each of 3 lights (3 with leaded glazing). Rear doorway, now the main entrance, has reeded panel mouldings of c.1800. Lower rear wing has a similar gable parapet with a stone-based stack, but has C20 windows and first-floor dormers. Outbuilding range to right of main range, linking to Sydenham House (q.v.), has a small doorway plus a 2-light casement, and at the rear has a larger open entry plus an old 3-light casement with splayed mullions and lattice glazing. Interior: stop-chamfered cross beams; large inglenook fireplace with chamfered bressumer and bread oven; some C18 panelled doors and shutters.

Listing NGR: SP4776135692