Gittisham Farm Farmhouse

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

GITTISHAM SY 19 NW

7/134 Gittisham Farm Farmhouse - II

Farmhouse. Early C19. Flint rubble, whitewashed and rendered, except on the rear elevation; hipped slate roof with a central valley; 2 axial stacks with brick shafts and ornamental brick cornices Plan: Double depth plan, 2 rooms wide, with a central entrance into a passage, the rooms probably heated from back to back fireplaces.

Exterior: Well-preserved. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with deep eaves with eaves brackets; original open timber porch on posts with an original grained, panelled front door, the top panels glazed. Original fenestrations of 3 first floor 16-pane sashes; ground floor windows 12 over 8 pane sashes. The right return also preserves original windows, the 2-bay left return, fronting the road, has one C20 window to ground floor, a blind recess to front floor right, 16-pane original sash to first floor left, 12 over 8 pane sash to ground floor right. A C19 garden wall to the garden in front of and to the left of the house is included in the listing. To the front of the house the wall is brick with concrete coping; the wall is flint rubble fronting the road.

Interior: Not inspected but likely to retain original joinery and other features.

Listing NGR: SY1226798552

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0001 IOE Records taken by Anthony Aaben-Reader; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Anthony Aaben-Reader. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project