Barnes Street Farmhouse

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HADLOW THREE ELM LANE, GOLDEN GREEN TQ 64 NW 6/107 Nos 1 and 2 Barnes Street - Farmhouse

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Farmhouse, divided into 2 cottages. Late C15/early C16 origins, largely rebuilt and rearranged in the late C17, various late C19 alterations and additions, probably associated with the subdivision of the farmhouse. The main block is timber-framed but ground floor level underbuilt with Flemish bond brick, white-washed on the front, framing above clad with weatherboards on the front and peg-tile on other sides; extensions in Flemish bond brick; brick stacks and chimneyshafts, original staggered chimneyshafts to main block; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Former farmhouse is set back from the lane and faces north north west, say north. The main block has a 3-room lobby entrance plan. The right (west) end room was probably the kitchen (with dairy outshot on the end), the centre room the parlour and at the left end an unheated service room. Large axial stack between parlour and kitchen serves back-to-back fireplaces. Main stair is a straight flight to rear of the stack and from the parlour. Single storey bakehouse with rear end stack to rear of former kitchen is probably C18. Alongside it, and behind the main stair a 2-storey one-room plan service wing with rear gable-end stack is probably C19. Late C19 parlour built in front of former service room, its roof parallel with the main block and has a projecting gable-end stack.

No 1 is the left hand cottage occupying the front parlour, the 2 main block rooms left of the stack and the C19 rear service block. No 2, to right, occupies the rest.

The main house is essentially late C17 but there is evidence at the left (east) end of an earlier house, narrower than the late C17 house and jettied on the west and south sides.

2 storeys with disused attics in the roofspace, single storey bakehouse to rear and lean-to outshot on the right (west) end.

Exterior: 1:2-window front, including a couple of late C19 tripartite sashes containing centre 4-pane sashes and a contemporary canted bay window to the front parlour block containing a sash missing its glazing bars. The others are C20 casements with glazing bars. Front doorway (used by No 2) is right of centre and contains a C19 6-panel door under a flat hood. The main roof is half-hipped to left and hipped to right where the pitch continues down over the dairy outshot. The ridge at the right end returns back to a rear gable. Rear has an irregular arrangement of mostly C20 casements except for the 2 first floor windows to rear of No 1 which are probably late C17 3-light windows with flat-faced mullions and contain rectangular panes of leaded glass. The east end wall of the main block has an unglazed dairy window at ground floor level, a 12-pane sash to the first floor, and a loading hatch doorway to the attics.

Interior: The only evidence showing of the C16 house is from the east end service room (No 1), joists of large scantling with evidence of jetties. Most of the carpentry detail in the rest of the house is hidden by later plaster but the late C17 (and possibly earlier) structure is thought to be well- preserved. All the fireplaces are blocked. The former kitchen (in No 2) and chamber above have chamfered and scroll-stopped beams. Most of the joinery detail is late C19 and C20 although the main stair (in No 1) is late C17; square newel posts and turned balusters. Main block roof of collared tie-beam trusses with staggered butt purlins.

Nos 1 and 2 Barnes Street Farmhouse is one of a good group of listed buildings in the vicinity of Barnes Place (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ6459248116

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