Farmhouse Rest Home

87, Water Lane, Totton, SO40 3DJ

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Overview

Former farmhouse, now residential care home. Early mid-C17, extended later C17; C18 and early-C19 alterationsExtensions dating from 1987 are not of special interest. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1094353
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1980
List Entry Name:: Farmhouse Rest Home
Statutory Address:: 87, Water Lane, Totton, SO40 3DJ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1094353
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1980
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-May-2014
List Entry Name:: Farmhouse Rest Home
Statutory Address 1:: 87, Water Lane, Totton, SO40 3DJ

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 87, Water Lane, Totton, SO40 3DJ

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hampshire
District:: New Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Totton and Eling
National Grid Reference:: SU 35509 13395

Summary

Former farmhouse, now residential care home. Early mid-C17, extended later C17; C18 and early-C19 alterations. Extensions dating from 1987 are not of special interest.

Reasons for Designation

No. 87 Water Lane, Totton, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: as a C17 timber-framed house with C18 and early-C19 alterations, which, although altered and extended in the late-C20, retains a significant portion of its historic fabric and plan; * Regional rarity: very few vernacular houses survived the intensive C20 suburbanisation of the rural fringes of Southampton, and this confers a measure of rarity on those that remain.

History

The building appears on the 1872 OS map as part of Waterlane Farm, with a range of farm buildings to the south east around a yard. By 1933 the suburbanisation of Totton and the surrounding area was well advanced and the farm had been partially redeveloped; by the 1950s agricultural use had clearly ceased and all the farm buildings had gone.

The earliest part of the building dates probably from the early-to-mid-C17 and consists of a timber-framed, two-bay lobby-entry plan house aligned east-west, to which a wing was added on the south side in the later C17, forming an L-plan. The house was encased in brick in the C18. A two-storey front wing was added to the eastern bay and a two-storey porch in the angle, possibly in the early C19. By 1933 a further extension had been made on the east side, consisting of a narrow single-storey lean-to range abutting the front wing. The house was converted into a care home for the elderly in 1983, and in 1987 the one-storey extension was demolished and replaced with a two-storey extension which wraps around the front wing. The rear wing was also extended by one bay, and the central stack removed above ground-floor level.

Details

MATERIALS: timber framing encased in red brick, now painted; modern clay tile roof.

PLAN: at ground-floor level the C17 house plan largely survives, although a partition has been inserted on the north side of the east room to create a corridor. To the rear is an outshut. The attic has been subdivided into bedrooms and bathrooms.

EXTERIOR: one storey high plus attic with a pitched roof, originally half-hipped at the east end. The front (north) elevation has a plat band and an early-mid C19 tripartite sash window with glazing bars. The porch has an early-C19 six-panelled door and a narrow sash window to the upper floor. The front wing, which obscured the eastern bay of the original house, has been almost entirely subsumed into the 1987 extension. There are large modern dormers to all rear roof slopes.

INTERIOR: the east and west rooms have deep-chamfered axial beams and stops with elongated steps and runouts, exposed joists (those to the west room chamfered, some with runout stops) and fireplace bressumers. A post is exposed in the north wall of the east room (now within the corridor). The rear south-west room has square framing to the north and west walls and exposed joists; the chamfered main beam has stops carved with a raised pyramidal moulding. A substantial brick fireplace has a bressumer and niche to left side, possibly a former bread oven. The truss of the eastern gable is partially visible in an attic bedroom; it is unclear how much of the roof structure survives.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 143499
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.