Farmstead, Rymes Place Farm

SO 72 SE NEWENT MALSWICK

8/163 Farmstead, Rymes Place Farm

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Farmstead: third quarter C19. Red brickwork, variation on Flemish bond, yellow dressings to quoins and openings, tiled roofs, barn slated. L-plan farmstead. Eleven bays on right 2 storey, 5 to left single, also 6 at right angles: barn end left range. Right return facing yard stone steps, simple iron handrail, to boarded granary door, cat hole, cambered brick-on-end arch. Plain bargeboards to gable. Yard facade: on right 4-bay cartshed, timber posts with shaped caps, on stone bases, flat timber lintel, decorated 3 horseshoes. Yard itself begins on left: 2 bay stable, with boarded door, elliptical brick-on-end arch; semi- circular headed window, similar arch, stone sill (all other windows same pattern). To left 2-bay wide elliptical-headed opening, no door; 3-bay stable, windows each side of elliptical-headed boarded door. 5-bay, single-storey cowhouse, alternating windows and doors, as before. First floor 6-bays alternating blind and glazed windows: 3 glazed windows, square, shuttered pitch-hole to left over second stable door: further window. Cowhouse roof 2 rows of club tiles: open eaves. Interior, trimming for sack-hoist over cartshed: granary trusses collar, struts either side to floor with iron ties to wallplate: 2 pair purlins, plank ridge. Cowhouse, king-post roof trusses, bolts to tie beam, tapered principal rafters, purlins as granary. Feed preparation room in corner. Beyond lower, narrower 3-bay shed open to rick yard, rafter roof. Left return 6-bay formerly open-fronted shed, as cartshed, now infilled weatherboarding; roof to yard corrugated aluminium, trusses as cowhouse. Left end barn, set back with lean-to extensions each side of central porch, double-boarded doors, weatherboarded gable. To road, plain wall with buttresses to each bay division: similar rear wall to former open shed. Barn at end, sets forward. Slit air vents, square, diamond-set owl hole in gable with yet-low-brick diamond round. Barn interior, 5 bay, with internal buttresses: queen-post trusses, 2 pairs purlins. Yard wall largely survives. Barn built first, rest of farmstead shortly afterwards. A very complete range of C19 farm buildings, carefully designed for architectural effect.

Listing NGR: SO7509424689