Great Lea Farmhouse
GREAT LEA FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245425
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Great Lea Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT LEA FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 1999-08-20
- Reference:
- IOE01/01168/21
- Rights:
- © Brian Steptoe. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245425
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Great Lea Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT LEA FARMHOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT LEA FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shinfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU7088368210
Details
SU 76 NW
8/10008
SHINFIELD
Great Lea Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Probably early C17; additions and alterations early C19, mid-late C19, c1927 and c1998. C17 wing timber-framed with wattle and daub infill, east gable with later rendering scored as ashlar, otherwise with later brick cladding; additions of red brick in Flemish bond; plain tile roofs; brick stacks. The C17 wing was possibly originally part of a larger house. East (garden) elevation: 3 bays, comprising 2-storey gabled C17 wing on right, one-and-a-half storey early-C19 bay at centre, and 2-storey gabled bay of c1927 on left; mid-late C19 1-storey, 4-bay dairy addition projecting on right. C17 wing has 4-pane casement on left and wide window with paired 4-light casements on right; on 1st floor, tripartite window of 2, 4 and 2 panes; exposed purlin ends; large cross-ridge stack with 2 flues. Central section has part-glazed door on right; 12-pane sash under segmental brick arch on left; similar 1st-floor window rising through eaves under gable; stack rising from front roof pitch on right. Left bay has a 16-pane sash to each floor. Rear: C17 wing has side outshut with entrance in C20 porch. Further porch on right of central section. Various small-pane casements and sash windows as before. Dairy has corrugated-iron outshut roof over 3-bay loggia with solid-walled bay to right; decorative cusped and fretted barge-boards to gable. Interior: C17 wing has: central stack, formerly with back-to-back fireplaces; chamfered cross-beam with stepped cyma stop in kitchen; one wall-post visible on ground floor; more framing exposed on 1st floor, including small section at south-west corner with mid-rail, studs and wall-plate; similar timbers, but including straight-brace, at south-east corner; and, in east room, the principal rafters, purlins and large-scantling curved wind braces of the roof structure. In roof, the original 3-bay structure survives. There were full-height cross-wa1ls between the bays, of which the eastern one survives; old floor-boards. Collared queen-post roof trusses with tie-beams, principal rafters and clasped purlins; curved wind-braces; paired rafters, some of them sooted and re-used. Mid-late C19 features of note include the dairy with its tiled floor, walls and shelves, and moulded ceiling cornice; the similar tiling and wash-copper in the C17 wing; and the polychromatic tile floor and polished stone fireplace in the main entrance hall. An early-C17 timber-framed range which retains its original roof structure and has an interesting C19 dairy addition.
Listing NGR: SU7088368210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473037
- 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.
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