Gardiners Farm

SANDHURST - SO 82 SW 5/117 Gardiners Farm 10.1.55 GV II Former farmhouse, now detached house. C15 or earlier and C20. Square-panelled timber-framing on blue lias plinth, rendered infill, thatched roof with decorative ridge decoration, brick stack. Rectangular main body. C20 timber-framed outbuilding, attached on north west not of special interest. Main body 1 1/2 storeys. North front, upper floor lit by C20 two-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. C20 two-light casements with and without glazing-bars on ground floor, C19 plank door left with single pane at top, ogee curved lintel board above. Former doorway towards right-hand end also with ogee curved lintel board, now blocked with window inserted. Some ground floor openings within projecting C20 timber surrounds. Most of timber-framing-on south front refaced in painted brick. Late C19 or C20. Interior: possibly up to 5 cruck trusses, 3 full trusses at centre rising to apex, gable end trusses with yolks. Cruck spurs from main wall posts. Deep-chamfered tie beams and wall plate with diamond, stepped and ovolo-moulded stops. Large central open fireplace with oak bressumer, herring-bone brickwork at rear of fireplace. Single tier of windbraces.

Listing NGR: SO8275322535