Culmer Farm House

SU 93NW WITLEY C.P. PETWORTH ROAD Wormley

8/286 Culmer Farm House 15.7.86 GV II

House. Early C16, extended and remodelled by W.D. Caröe in the early C20, later C20 extensions to the rear. Timber framed, the front and rear centre wall replaced with coursed and galletted sandstone blocks, sandstone rubble cladding to the right and brick cladding to ground floor left below tile hung first floor (some in fishscale pattern). Tile hung first floor over sandstone below on right hand return front. Early C20 plain roof to front, hipped with end gablets, gable plain tiled roof to rear wing. L shaped plan with four bay Hall house to front the centre bays of which have been considerably remod- elled in the early C20, C18 and C20 extensions forming the rear wing. Two storeys with large, four-square early C20 multiple stack to left of centre, older, C17 stack to rear right. Wood framed leaded casement fenestration, four windows across each floor including a square bay to ground floor left. Door now on the left hand return front in a porch recess at the end of an "arbour". Rear: brick quoins to end, tiled offsets to stack. Some frame exposed to first floor left. Two windows on the first floor of the wing to the right, continuous ground floor fenestration below. Interior: Considerable amounts of framing exposed, including the old exterior wall, now preserved inside to rear left. Very heavy ceiling joists to ground floor right, moulded dais beam to centre, probably moved in the remodelling. Deep fireplace with salt cupboard flanking. Roof structure exposed on the first floor, possibly reconstructed. Central octagonal crown post with "girdle" moulding and square plinth with "gabled" sides. Outer crown posts plain, all braced. Jowled main posts to centre bay with arched bracing, diagonal ties to ends. The house is set in an early C20 garden laid out at the time of remodelling.

Listing NGR: SU9483739114