Old Farmhouse

SO 9527 BISHOP'S CLEEVE STATION ROAD (south side)

16/48 Old Farnhouse

4.7.60

II

Former farmhouse now house. Late C15-early C16. Close-studded timber framing with tension bracing on a part rubble part ashlar plinth; C18 brick at rear; stone slate roof with ashlar stacks; later extension coursed squared and dressed limestone. 'H'-shaped plan suggests original central hall with projecting service and parlour wings, door to screens passage, with later extension at the east end. Exposed timber framing to the roadside front with timber-framed gables projecting forwards to right and left; gable end of stone-built extension far left. Two C19 two-light casements with leaded panes and two C20 casements one 2-light, one single light all to the ground floor. Small C18-early C19 casement and three C20 two-light casements to the first floor. All windows with leaded panes. Early studded plank door, restored at the bottom, with strap hinges and thumb latch, immediately to the right of the left-hand gable. Small extension to rear of the left-hand cross wing. C20 steel casements with leaded panes at rear of main body. Axial and large projecting stack at the right gable end. Interior: Through passage. Central room possibly originally a small hall, open to the roof with first floor inserted at a later date. Reused wide moulded spine beam with large square boss with foliate decoration in quadrants, reputed to come from Hailes Abbey, within this room the end of beam rests within chimney breast of an open fireplace with bressumer beam. Early dressed stone fireplace within the adjoining room, probably originally the parlour. Beams with jewelled stops. Early plank door with thumb latch from through passage to kitchen at opposite end. Flagged flooring. Cambered tie-beams with curved wind bracing to roof.

Listing NGR: SO9589827798