Oak View With Garden Wall

SE 35 NW 5/68 30.8.73

SCRIVEN THE GREEN (north side) Old Scriven Oak View with garden wall to front (formerly listed as "Oak View Farmhouse")

GV II

House and garden wall to front. C16 and C17, early C19 refronting with C20 restoration. House: timber frame encased in light red brick, English bond, C20 red tile roof; wall of coursed gritstone. 2 storeys, 4 bays, 3-cell lobby-entry plan . 4-panel door under segmental header arch, bay 3. C20 small-pane side-sliding sash windows throughout, all with projecting stone sills, 2 to left of door and one to right. The window above the entrance probably a C20 insertion. The ground-floor windows have segmental header arches; those to first floor are set below a timber wall plate visible at the eaves. Long steeply pitched roof. Stone gable coping and brick stack to left; C20 brick ridge stack bay 3. Left return: coursed gritstone and sandstone rubble; right return: brick as front; timber tie beam at eaves level. Interior not inspected at resurvey but recorded in 1979; substantial remains of a timber-framed building survive, including rear aisle posts, partition walls and soot-blackened common-rafter roof structure. The large fireplace originally had a smoke hood replaced by a brick stack in the C17. Front wall: approximately 2 metres high at junction with house, ramped down to 4 courses across the front; rounded coping. The house was one of the 3 farms around the village green in the C16 (cf Home Farm, Corner Cottage). B Hutton, "The Houses of Scriven Green", 1979.

Listing NGR: SE3481558473