Former Brandon Farmhouse, adjoining farm building and cottage, and attached wall is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1956. Farmhouse.
Former Brandon Farmhouse, adjoining farm building and cottage, and attached wall
- WRENN ID
- sheer-frieze-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1956
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a large former farmhouse with adjoining farm building and cottage, dating to the early/mid 17th century, with additions in 1705 and possibly elements from the 16th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with marlstone ashlar dressings and has an artificial stone slate roof, punctuated by ashlar stacks.
The main range is five units wide with rear wings. The left half of the six-window front is the earlier section and exhibits irregular fenestration with stone-mullioned windows of varying widths (two, one, and three lights at the first floor and two, three, and two lights at the ground floor), all with decorative labels. The right half of the front, built in 1705, is faced with continuous moulded ashlar stringing and features chamfered stone mullioned and transomed windows, with segmental or triangular pediments above some of the first-floor openings; a datestone inscribed "P/WE/1705" is set within a segmental pediment above a ground-floor window. The right portion of the roof has two dormers and three double-shafted stacks with plinths and moulded caps. The left gable wall includes further mullioned windows with labels, extending to a taller rear wing with aligned mullioned windows (four-, three-, and three-lights) in its rear gable, alongside mullioned cellar windows. This wing also has a triple-shafted stack. A gabled stair tower in the angle features two-light mullioned windows, but at a lower level has small, chamfered windows that may be from the 16th century or earlier. The rear of a later range boasts a canted stair projection, some stone mullioned and transomed windows, and sections of 17th-century rubble walling with mullioned windows and a first-floor doorway accessed by a stone stair. A small 18th-century wing adjoining the stair tower has a five-row dovecote in its gable.
To the right of the front range is a three-bay rubble farm building that curves around a bend in the road. It has a large cartway with double doors, incorporating a smaller door. A parapet tops the right gable wall. The right bay is now a cottage, with 20th-century alterations to the rear.
Internally, the farmhouse features two large open fireplaces with bread ovens, a bolection-mould fireplace with matching panelling, two winder stairs leading to the attic, and a 17th-century oak-panelled room in the rear wing, notable for its carved panels, a dentil cornice, a four-centre arched fireplace, and an overmantel of arched panels containing the inscription “P/IK”. The roof structure is characterised by butt-purlins. An approximately 1.3-metre high rubble wall, running about 50 metres to the east, is attached to the right end of the main range. Initials on the rebuilt south range indicate William and Elizabeth Parsons.
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