Hornbeam House And Tearoom

GREAT TEW OLD ROAD SP3929 (East side) 10/59 Hornbeam House and tearoom 27/08/56 (Formerly listed as Nos.19 and 20 (Falkland Arms), together with outbuildings) GV II Outbuildings and stables, now house and tearoom. C18/early C19, part possibly late medieval, converted and extended late C20. Coursed squared marlstone, and rubble with ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roofs with a limestone-ashlar gable stack. L-shaped range linked to a single unit around a courtyard. West range contains the former coachouse entrance plus a doorway and a 3-light casement; south gable wall has a 2-light stone-mullioned window. South range, now infilled, was formerly open fronted. C20 range on east links to a single-unit rubble building with gable parapets and stack which was probably a bakehouse. The entrance has an early C18 chamfered stone surround with projecting keyblock, and there are 3 small lattice windows with chamfered surrounds, 2 opening into the former open fireplace, that on the gable wall with a label. This building may have an early origin. Interior: large ashlar bread oven. Formerly outbuildings to the Falkland Arms (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SP3962429247