Sheepbell Farmhouse

GREAT BOOKHAM COBHAM ROAD TQ/15/NW (east side) 2/73

7.9.51 Sheepbell Farm house

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably late C17 or early C18, extended in C18 and further enlarged and altered. Hand-made red brick in Flemish bond, red tile roofs. Approximately L-shaped plan formed by originally single-depth main range with rear wing and various additions to this. Two-and-a-half storeys, with three 1st floor windows; plinth, 4-course band; segmental-headed doorway offset left of centre (with C19 wooden latticed porch); 2 square segmental-headed 16-pane sashed windows with exposed boxes to the left, and an added octagonal bay window at the left corner; a single-light window and an added rectangular bay window to the right; 3 segmental-headed 16-pane sashed windows with exposed boxes at 1st floor (one to the left and 2 to the right); 2 gabled dormers with 2- light casements. Gable chimneys. The left gable wall has inter alia a 6-pane sash and a very small window at 1st floor, and two 2-light casements to the attic. The rear wing is covered by a parallel addition on the left side, its rear gable wall has 2 casements at ground floor and one above (all different), and a single- storey service extension wraps round the corner and side. Interior: the left room at ground floor has 3 stop-chamfered beams and a brick inglenook fireplace, the right-hand room has one similar beam and a large brick fireplace, (central bay altered by insertion of staircase); the rooms above these at 1st floor each have a chamfered beam and a fireplace with iron grate (that to the left with a circular hob, and the other a duck's nest type), and a large beam passes across the front of the chimney breast in the left room (perhaps the remains of a smoke hood); both attic rooms have fireplaces with similar beams across the front.

Listing NGR: TQ1333757309