Highworth Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Farmhouse.
Highworth Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- little-terrace-clover
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
STAN HILL 1. 5387 (south-west side) TQ 24 SW 1/58 11.11.66 Highworth Farmhouse II* GV
- Late C15 or early C16 4 bay open hall house later adapted, to smoke bay house and with dairy outshut in north-east corner. Two storeys timber-framed with painted back infilling. Square framing with same diagonal braces. Hipped tiled roof with gablets and pentice. Three casement windows. Wind brace and clasped purlin roof with smoke blackened rafters. There is a cross passage behind the chimney and the partition wall between hall and solar has matching parallel arch braces. The dairy out shut retains its stone floor and there are fine elm floor-boards in the ceiled over hall. The inserted chimney has a bacon loft. The ingle nook hearth was the subject of a painting by the late C19 Surrey artist Binscombe Gardner. It has a bread oven and salt cupboard. One of the most unaltered late Mediaeval houses in Charlwood. (See Joan M Harding, "Four Centuries of Charlwood Houses" pp 50 and 51).
Listing NGR: TQ2308342633
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