Jefferies Farmhouse

TQ 02 SE BILLINGSHURST CONEYHURST

14/454 Jefferies Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse,C17 with C18 and early C20 additions and alterations. Timber frame, squared rubble, brick, weatherboard and tile hung cladding; plain tile half hipped and gabled roof, a gabled dormer, two brick stacks. Two storeys and attic. Earliest part is a C17 two unit, timber framed, lobby entry cottage with a C17 timber framed rear wing with brick infill panels probably an addition. In C18 front range underbuilt in rubble with a rubble lean-to under a cat-slide roof added against the entry side. Later weatherboarded cladding to first floor at south end and tile hung cladding to first floor at north end. An early C20 block in brick painted white added into angle of main range and wing projects to north side and incorporates main entrance to house in recessed arched porch to left with a 3-light casement to right with upper transom. Above, on first floor, a 3-light casement to right and a single light casement over porch. To left, in north end of main range a 4 light casement on ground floor, 3-light casement on first floor and 2-light casement to attic. In east front (lean-to) a central door with glazed upper panel with a late C20 casement to either side: the right hand window under an original timber lintol. On south side a 4-light casement in end of main range and similar to left in side of wing on ground floor: both with glazing bars. Above a large late C20 2-light casement on first floor of range with. small casement to left. Gabled dormer to wing. Internally a central stack behind original lobby entry. Interior not inspected but believed to contain exposed beams and posts.

Listing NGR: TQ0994024234