Quaker Farmhouse

SP 8020 WHITCHURCH OVING ROAD (south side)

9/224 No. 1. (Quaker Farmhouse)

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GV II

House. Late C16-C17, altered. Left bays have restored timber frame with brick infill and rubble stone plinth. Right bays are re-cased in red brick. Gables and rear have rubble stone to ground floor and timber framing above, the rear with first floor jettied on beam ends. Old tile roof, brick chimneys to gables and centre. 2 storeys and cellar, 4 bays. Front has irregular C20 leaded casements, the right bay with one oriel window to ground floor and 2 above. Central C20 door in gabled timber porch. Steps down to cellar below left bay. U-plan extension to right incorporates outbuilding dated 1786, and is of brick with some timber framing and rubble stone. Rear, to Market Hill, has 3-light wooden casements to ground floor and irregular leaded casements to first floor, that in second bay old. Interior: ground floor room to left of central chimney has moulded cross beams, moulded wooden cornice, and heavy chamfered joists. This room also has fireplace with moulded stone jambs and moulded wooden lintel in the form of a very shallow 4-centred arch with carved spandrels. Fireplace in room above also has moulded stone jambs and wooden lintel. Bays to right have heavy plain cross beams and joists. Staircase has shaped splat balusters to upper landing.. RCHM II p. 329 Mon.21.

Listing NGR: SP8002620936