Middle Filham

UGBOROUGH MIDDLE FILHAM SX 65 NW

8/118 Middle Filham - - II

House, formerly a farmhouse. Circa late C16. Stone rubble. Slate roof with gabled ends. 3-room and cross-passage plan with kitchen or parlour wing at rear forming T-shaped plan. Axial stone stack backing onto former cross passage. Gable end stacks and lateral stack at rear of lower end. Large gable end stack to rear wing. 2 storeys. Long 5-window range. C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars, ground flor windows have C19 flat red brick arches. Early C19 panelled door to former cross passage, to right of centre, with slate hood. Later plank door to left hand higher end, also with slate hood. Interior: Hall has one chamfered main axial beam and 2 half beams at upper and lower end of hall with bar steps with sunken spandrel- like recessed either side of step. The chamfered joists have similar steps. Hall fireplace has granite jambs and chamfered timber lintel with straight cut steps. Early to mid C19 stairs inserted into wide cross passage. Roof over hall and higher end has 4 trusses with straight principals with halved and lap-jointed apices, 3 tiers of mortices for threaded purlins, purlins missing, and later bolted or nailed collars. 4 trusses over lower end are crossed and lap-jointed at apices, collars are lap-jointed and side pegged and purlins are trenched.

Listing NGR: SX6487055772