Bradshaws Farmhouse With Attached Garden Wall

KELMSCOTT SU2499-2599 10/58 Bradshaws Farmhouse with attached garden wall (Formerly listed as Bradshaws 12.9.55 Farmhouse) GV II*

Farmhouse. Dated 1757 with C19 additions and alterations. Limestone ashlar front with alternating chamfered angle quoins; roughly coursed and dressed rubble to sides and rear. Hipped stone slate roof. Original L-plan with C19 addition in angle to rear on right. 2 storeys on moulded chamfered plinth. Five-window front, 2-light mullion windows in moulded architraves, those to first floor directly below eaves, 2 to right of entrance on ground floor replaced by early C19 tripartite glazing bar sash window reusing original mullions. Central entrance; C18 pedimented doorcase with pulvinated frieze partly concealed by early C19 stone pilastered porch with ogee arch to gable. 6-panel door with raised oval and rectangular discs in fluted wood surround with plain rectangular overlight. Initials "EB" in raised lettering and date "1757" scratched on lead flashing of pediment. Integral axial stacks to back wall on left and right have moulded dripstones and capping. Left return has cross window on each floor, that to first floor infilled with brick. 2 cross windows with dripstones on each floor to right return, those to right infilled with brick. C19 rubble stone lean-to attached to short hip-roofed range at right-angles to rear on left and C19 gabled range parallel to main range in angle to right (see straight joint). Garden wall: attached to front corners of main range. Probably contemporary with house. Roughly coursed limestone rubble with coping, ramped to angles. Interior. Dog-leg staircase to central stone-flagged entrance hall has moulded handrail and barleysugar balusters to open string. Raised and fielded panelling (c.1757) in right ground-floor room, which also has contemporary moulded plaster ceiling cornice and spine beam. C19 pilastered wood surround to fireplace. C18 moulded stone surround to fireplace in left ground-floor room and 2 more to first floor. Wide floor boards to first floor and attic, which has double-purlin collar truss roof. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p667) [2353]

Listing NGR: SU2456999325