Church Gate Farmhouse And Outbuildings Immediately To North

NORTHLEW NORTHLEW SX 59 NW 9/230 Church Gate Farmhouse and outbuildings immediately to North GV II Farmhouse. Circa early C16 with Cl? modifications. Plastered cob walls. Gable ended thatch roof. Brick stack at each end and one axial on a rubble base. Plan: 3-room-and-through-passage plan, lower end to the right. Hall stack backs onto passage but this was a Cl? insertion into an open hall origianlly heated by a central hearth, it is unclear whether the lower end and inner rooms were also open to the roof. At the same time that the hall stack was inserted it was also floored. At the rear of the higner end of the hall is the remains of a newel stair with what could be a garderobe beside it. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front of C19 small-paned 2 and 3-light casements to left of porch apart from the ground floor left-hand one which is C20. C20 3-light casements to right of porch. At the centre the wall projects slightly at the front of the hall. Hide C18 or C19 open- fronted porch to right of centre over which thatch roof extends, C20 plank door behind it. At rear to left of passage doorway is C18 square section wooden mullion window. Interior: hall fireplace has chamfered wooden lintel and granite jamb. Chamfered ceiling beam with indistinct stops. Passage has chamfered joists, some hollow chamfered, with convex stops. Roof: raised cruck over hall with mortices for collar and threaded purlins. Apex not visible but almost certainly smoke-blackened. Similar cruck in partition to inner room. One blackened timber survives over passage but probably re-used. Later roof structure over lower end. To include outbuilding immediately to north of house which is 1 storey with a corrugated iron roof and has a C17 chamfered wooden doorframe to the left. This is an unspoilt and very picturesque house which forms a very attractive and traditional group with the nearby church and cross.

Listing NGR: SX5046099170