Town Farmhouse

EAST WORLINGTON WEST WORLINGTON SS 71 SE 8/34 Town Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse. Early C17, some C19 remodelling with refenestration. Rubble and cob, roughcast; gabled corrugated asbestos roof; 2 brick ridge stacks and a rendered lateral stack at front capped by a brick shaft. Plan: probably originally a 3-room and through-passage plan, large inner room to left with an axial stack, hall with front lateral stack and an integral hall bay of 2 storeys, lower end to right rebuilt. The through-passage now gone. Inner room to left altered C19 with the insertion of a door opening and partitioning to form a narrow lobby out of which rises a C19 staircase, the original staircase to the house now removed. A C19 service room at the lower (right) end with an axial stack and unheated store beyond it. Outbuilding added at higher end. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical front of 3:3:1 windows, 2- and 3-light late C19 casements, mostly with horizontal glazing bars. Door opening to left into the former inner room with a late C19 half-glazed door, door opening to right into lower room with plank door. Interior: on the ground floor large chamfered ceiling cross beams with straight-out stops, hall with simple framed ceiling; plank and muntin screen between hall and inner room, presently obscured by C20 partitioning, blocked remains of a doorway. All fireplaces blocked with C20 grates inserted. Roof: evidence of a raised cruck seen in the roof, trusses with 2 rows of purlins.

Listing NGR: SS7700313552