Milking Parlour And Cider House Immediately South Of Park Farmhouse

Description

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

TQ 64 NW CAPEL TUDELEY LANE (off), SOMERHILL PARK 1/302 Milking parlour and cider house immediately south of Park Farmhouse GV II

Milking parlour and cider house; partly adapted as a refrigerated fruit store.

Probably circa 1850, architect unknown to date; alterations of the 1980s.

Part of the home farm of Somerhill, now the Hadlow Estate. Mostly brick, with sections of timber framing below the eaves; peg-tile roof with fleur de lis crested ridge tiles.

Plan: Part of a designed Victorian farmstead with contemporary farmbuildings in a style to match the Vernacular Revival farmhouse. The layout of the group is picturesquely irregular and organized to look attractive as well as being functional. This building is sited above and south of the farmhouse, roofed on a north south axis with a west show front overlooking the farm lane, which carries on past the farmstead to the estate laundry. The main block contained a cider house to the north and housed machinery to the south, (information from the farmer) second block adjoining at the south may have been a cartshed.

Milking parlour to the rear left (north east) under a 2-span roof, altered and adapted for fruit storage.

Exterior: Main block 2 storeys, single-storey block to the south. Gable- ended roofs with deep eaves and moulded eaves and verges brackets. Framed sections arranged as cross-braced panels. Asymmetrical 3-window west front plus a lower-roofed block at the right end. Brick ramp along the front at the left, where the site slopes sharply away to the north. Large jettied framed gable to left of centre carried on curved brackets with a pendant at the apex and moulded brackets to the verges. Full height original paired plank doors below with a glazed overlight and glazed flanking panels. Gabled dormers to left and right with 2-light casements, 2 panes per light; similar window to the right of the paired doors, under the eaves, timber loft door to the left.

2 2-light casements to ground floor right, probably C20 door to ground floor left. The single-storey building has a central gable with moulded verges brackets above an original 2-leaf full-height door with a glazed overlight.

The left return of the main block is tile-hung on the first floor, brick below. The gable ends of the milking parlour have 4-light windows and curved braces in the gables.

Interior: The milking parlour is 2-bays deep, some of the posts have been removed to accommodate the fruit storage unit.

Listing NGR: TQ6157845026

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1081 Ioe Records Taken By Barbara Ingram-Monk; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mrs Barbara Ingram-Monk. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project