South Hole Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding

SS 43 NE GEORGEHAM HOLE LANE, South Hole

7/134 South Hole Farmhouse and attached - outbuilding 25.2.65 GV II

Farmhouse and attached cider house, latter now outbuilding. C15/16. Cl7 and C19 alterations. Colourwashed rendered rubble and cob, unrendered to left end, extension with slate roofs with gable ends. Scantle slates surviving to part of cross-wing. Open-hall range and cross-wing plan, roof later raised and hall floored. Hall range has lateral stack to rear and small brick stack at upper gable end. 2 storeys. 4 window range of C19/early C20 centre-hinged 2-light casements, 4 panes each over tripartite sash in hall with margin glazing bars and sliding sidelight sashes. C20 door inserted at upper end. Arched timber lintel to cross- passage with C20 door. Cross-wing front gable end has 2-light over 3-light casement 4 panes each light with short flanking buttresses. Lateral stack to left side which is otherwise blind and has 2-storeyed dairy extension projecting left at right angles with 2- light C19 casement, 3 panes each light over 2-light dairy window. Cross-wing on rear courtyard side has plank door and truncated lateral stack at upper end which extends into cider-house. Originally this may have formed integral part of cross- wing with blocked openings in end wall of present cross-wing but now has corrugated asbestos roof, with renewed roof trusses. Large opening on courtyard side. Cobbled floor with loft above. Early features to dwelling concentrated in cross-wing though fireplace lintels and ceiling beams may well be concealed in hall range. Cross-wing is of two rooms deep with chamfered beams with central dividing passage containing staircase. Plank and muntin screen to upper storey on lower side of dividing passage with 2 doorways that situated away from the hall range has shouldered jambs. 4 raised cruck trusses to cross-wing, but no access to roofspace at this end. Chamber to left of staircase formerly had Cl7 plasterwork, only a fragment of the cornice surviving to the 3 faces near the feet of the inner left side cruck blade. At head of staircase at the juncture of hall range and cross-wing, one cruck blade, probably of a raised cruck, survives of the open hall roof structure plastered into the dividing wall.

Listing NGR: SS4574838921