Northwick House Farmhouse With Attached Barn And Dairy Range

ST 58 NE PILNING AND SEVERN NORTHWICK ROAD (south side) BEACH Northwick 7/237 Northwick House Farmhouse with attached barn and dairy range

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Farmhouse. Dated 1707/WHM in central gable, also dated 1792/LHM at addition of south block, with C19 and later alterations and additions. Roughly coursed rubble, brick, stone dressings, triple roll tiled roof, gable stacks with octagonal chimneys, crestings; slate roof to rear block, pantiled barn and dairy. 3-room plan, through passage, barn and dairy form L-plan. 2½ storeys, 3 windows and 3 gables; 2 bays to right have at ground floor: gabled porch with 4-panelled door, 3 stone cross-windows with entablature, 2 similar windows at 1st floor and 2 in gables, oval bull's eyes in stone surround with cornice above, ball finials, straight joint above porch; bay to left has 6-light stone mullion and transom window with hood mould and stops, 1st floor has stone cross window with similar hood mould, trefoil in square chamfered surround in gable, ball finial. 1½ storey wing attached to right, with small gable, slit window in stone surround and buttress at side. Left return has brick flue, 2 sashes at 1st floor with intersecting glazing bars in upper half, C20 conservatory, straight joint between 2 sashes. Rear has irregular windows, including ground floor centre, similar sash with 8 panes in lower half, intersecting glazing bars in upper half, 16-pane sash above with gauged brick flat head and surround, ground and 1st floor left have 16-pane boxed sashes with cambered heads; 2-storey block connecting house to barn and dairy has boxed sash at 1st floor north. 3-bay barn has cart entry, 2 windows and door, all with timber lintel, blocked loading door in gable end, catslide roof to north; dairy has plank and batten door with glass insertion and timber lintel, 2-light fixed window above, external stair leading to trellis porch with door to former cheese-loft. Interior: not inspected. (Sources: Hall, Linda : Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720. 1983).

Listing NGR: ST5610286381