St Aldam'S Ash Farmhouse

ST 77 NW 5/201

PUCKLECHURCH C.P. WESTERLEIGH ROAD (east side) St. Aldam's Ash Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. C17, with C19 and later alterations and additions. Coursed limestone rubble, ashlar porch, stone dressings, rendered at right return and rear, double Roman tiled roof with brick gable stack to right. L-plan, former cross passage. 2 storeys and 3 windows, not symmetrical, all 3-light casements with ovolo mullions and dripstone, central C19 gabled porch, C20 outer door, 4-panelled and glazed inner door, first floor has two 3-light and one 2-light similar casements. Left return has ground and first floor 3-light casement, 2-light at attic, as on front; 2-storey rear wing has ground floor 2-light casement (formerly door in ashlar surround) and first floor 3-light window as on front, C20 lean-to porch. Rear of rear wing has large single storey pebbledashed extension, C20 window in gable end above, lean-to attached to left; at rear of main-house, 2-storey stair turret with small C20 window at first floor and 2-light casement with leaded lights, wooden mullion and frame in gable. Interior: in rear wing under stack, a large blocked fireplace with oven curve, heavy chamfered beam, plank and batten door; front right room has wide fireplace with oven recess; winder stair in turret to attic level, plank and batten doors with strap hinges; 5 bays of roof visible, principal rafters, 2 rows of purlins, ridge purlin and plated yoke, 3 bays of rear wing and 2 bays of stair turret of similar construction.

Listing NGR: ST7046077297