Water Meadow

SS 44 SW (/NW) GEORGEHAM SHARPLAND LANE

2/173 Water Meadow - (formerly listed as Tuckers 25.2.65 Farmhouse)

GV II

House, formerly farmhouse, with stables and barns attached. Cl7 origins extended and remodelled in C20 when stables and barns were coverted. Whitewashed rendered rubble and some cob with slate roof hipped at right end. Tiled roofs to rear. Rubble stack at left end. 3-sided courtyard plan with connecting rubble wall and outbuildings on fourth side. Original dwelling is L-shaped forming part of main front range to left side and right-angled extension to rear. Right side of main front range and right-angled extension to rear with stables and barn respectively, now converted to part of dwelling. 2 storeys, 4 window range of two 2-light casements to left 4 panes each and two 3-light casements to right 6 panes each above 3-light casements flanking 2-light casement and rubble porch with gabled tiled roof. Cl7 inner doorway has ovolo-moulded and stopped surround complete with ledged plank door with cover strips and square-headed nails. Plank door at right end with small window to right. Inner courtyard left side wall has two 2-light casements over 3-light casement all early C19 fenestration. Ovolo-moulded beam to front room with old plank doors, possibly reset. Part of original roof survives to right-angled extension of original dwelling with 1 truss with diagonally threaded ridge purlin and single set of threaded purlins.

Listing NGR: SS4489140190