Deans Biggin Farmhouse

OFF MANSERGH ROAD 1. 5166 Deans Biggin farmhouse (formerly listed as Deans Biggin) SD 68 SW 2/147 21.11.52 II

1. C16 or early C17 farmhouse with later alterations and additions. Two storeys. Rubble. Slate roof. Three chimneys. Symmetrical three bay composition. Two storey gabled porch. Three light windows to either side with chamfered stone mullions. Only that at top left has chamfered surround and moulded label. Rest have plain stone surrounds as do the openings in porch and the single light windows which flank it on ground floor. On first floor of porch is crude Venetian window with keystone but solid tympanum, all three lights sashed with all glazing bars. Doorway segmental headed altered from round headed. Over it shield shaped plaque with raised lettering "IAB 1623". At apex of porch gable a worn finial with four gables. At rear later except at left, where one three light chamfered mullioned window to first floor. Modern casements to all windows except porch. Interior. Exposed beams. Central chimney stack with three stone fireplaces, probably early C17. Large fireplace on ground floor with segmental head and moulded stopped chamfers. Two on first floor with triangular heads. One with ornament and date 1623, other shouldered with heavily moulded square surround. Western part of roof has renewed trusses. Eastern part said to be C17 king post with cambered trusses. (RCHM, NLVAS).

Listing NGR: SD6020280952