Bickle Farmhouse

SWIMBRIDGE SS 62 NW 11/159 Bickle Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Probably early C16, remodelled 1729 (datestone) and extended in C20 to rear. Stone rubble. Slate roof with clay ridge tiles, hipped at right end. Tall brick stack at right end. Brick shaft to lateral rubble stack to rear enclosed in C20 2-storey outshut. Possibly 3-room-and-cross-passage former open hall plan with shippon attached at lower end, now taken in as part of dwelling. 1 1/2 storeys. 4 window range of half dormers with 2-light casements, 8 panes per light. C20 fenestration. 3 doorways, that to centre has stone rubble porch and slated canopy, the porch to right is flanked by buttresses. Small 1729 datestone to left of centre porch. Stopped and moulded beams to room to right of cross-passage, but only roofspace could be closely inspected. From upper end: 3 trusses probably the date of the remodelling with threaded purlins and ridge purl in and lap-jointed collars all clean, a single C16 truss set lower than the rest with some smokeblackening, pierced for purlins and morticed and tenoned collar, another clean truss with trenched purlins and over the shippon an apparently reused blade of a clean cruck truss, the elbow at the head arching over and resting on a straight principal rafter, both pierced for purlins.

Listing NGR: SS6072728050