Lintridge Farmhouse

DYMOCK BROMSBERROW HEATH SO 73 SW

5/64 Lintridge Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C17, C18, early C19: minor alterations mid C20. Flemish-bond brickwork, heading bond to bows; rough render to rear (all painted): timber-framing to rear visible inside: slate roof, low wings tiled. Three-bay, 3-storey front, catslide roof to low 2-storey rear, 2 rooms deep: single storey wing left, 2-storey right. Entrance front: single-storey mid-C20 hipped porch centre, half-glazed on brick base. Plinth to whole front: narrow set-back either side centre before semi-circular full-height bows each side: each 3 sash windows, stone sills, flat rubbed-brick arches: sashes on ground floor left only curved, rest straight. First floor centre, 2 sashes, rendered surround, set off centre: blind windows sides, sash front only in bows, as below. Second floor, bows as below, but 6-pane sashes: similar sash in centre. Plain parapet over, sweeps up to projecting chimneys on gables each end. To left single-storey hipped end, leanto, late C20 garage door alteration. To right low 2-storey wing set back, blocked door left, semi-circular rubbed-brick arch; late C20 casement right, cambered rubbed-brick arch. Above two 4-pane casements left, 3-light casement, flat head, right. Dentil eaves, hipped end to roof above. Single-storey extension right engulfs projecting brick chimney, C20 casement. Interior: 4-fielded panel doors in front centre ground and first floors, one 2-panel door with L hinges. Timber-framing exposed in rear, close studding originally on left, left gable decorative diagonal struts, exposed first floor. Right wing large jowls to corner posts, tie beam truss, V-struts above collar. Roof to 3- storey section, rear half 2 trusses survive, cruck-like braces to principals. Original stairs first to second floor, turned balusters, moulded handrail. Cellar under left half front cut in solid rock. House originally T-shaped timber-framed, 2 storeys; 3-storey hipped brick front added in angle early C18, bows added, eaves raised with gables and catslide over rear wing early Cl9.

Listing NGR: SO7413232753