The Old Farmhouse

ST4112 HINTON ST GEORGE CP WEST STREET (South side)

7/88 The Old Farmhouse 4.2.38

GV II

Semi-detached farmhouse. Possibly C16, altered in C17 and C18. Ham stone roughly cut and squared, ashlar dressings; thatched roof with stepped coped gable to east, continuation to west; brick chimney stacks. Single-storey with attics, 6 bays. Hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in chamfered recesses with labels, all 3-light. Attic windows of 2-light horizontal-bar casements set into thatch, bays 2, 4 and 5. Boarded door set in heavy frame, beaded and slightly camfered, in bay 3, in a recess up 3 steps. Between bays 2/3 a projecting chimney breast with band course and double offsets. Blocked window at front of east gable, later casement windows towards rear. Interior not seen, but reported is a 3-room cross passage plan; hall has a chamfered-arched fireplace in north wall; parlour has a shell-hood recess in position of blocked window; 3rd room has stud and panelled partition. Most beams cased, but one deep chamfered with step and runout stop, another shallow-chamfered with cyna-recta stop: remains of jointed cruck built into wall near west gable, still visible in roof, although roof frame raised at some stage, (Attached to west gable is Cobbles (qv)). (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1973).

Listing NGR: ST4189812567