Clerkenleap Farmhouse

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KEMPSEY SOBSSE A38 1431-0/4/10005 (West side) Clerkenleap Farmhouse II

House, formerly a farmhouse. Circa late C16 and C17; remodelled circa 1840. Red brick in Flemish and English bonds and timber-framed. Plain clay tile roof with gable ends and gabled at front. Brick gable-end and axial stacks. PLAN: The main range is a circa 1840 remodelling of a C17 house with a stair-tower to the rear of the left-hand end; adjoining the back of the stair-tower there is an earlier C17 or late C16 timber-framed wing, which became the kitchen wing to the 1840 house. The remodelled front range has a plan with three rooms at the front and a side entrance porch to an axial corridor behind the three rooms; as well as the earlier kitchen wing there is a long circa C17/18 outbuilding attached to the back of the right-hand end. The circa 1840 remodelling is in Tudor style.

EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and tall attic. Symmetrical 3-bay east front with three gables with bargeboards and pendants; chamfered brick window openings with C19 3-light casements with glazing bars, the ground floor with transoms and in projecting bays to left and right. The left [south] return has C19 gabled brick porch and earlier wing to left with 5-light casement with cambered brick arch and smaller 4-light window above. Timber-framing in the gable of the stair-tower at the rear to the right; on the left a long brick outbuilding wing with timber-framing in gable-end.

INTERIOR: The main front range has chamfered ceiling beams with cyma stops, C18 joinery including panelled doors and chimneypiece on first floor with eared architrave; other C19 joinery. Good C17 winder staircase in tower with closed string, moulded handrail, square newels and symmetrical turned balusters. Exposed in the attic timber-framed partitions and some re-used panelling. l-bay timber-framed rear wing has kitchen on ground floor with chamfered ceiling beams with step-stops and in chamber above exposed storey-posts, tie-beam, queen-struts, collar and curved windbraces.

NOTE: Clerkenleap was the seat of the Winslows; Edward Winslow sailed in the Mayflower in 1620 and became Governor of Plymouth Colony. Clerkenleap was also the birthplace of Treadway Russell Nash [1725-1811], the historian and author of 'Collections for the History of Worcestershire', and editor of Samuel Butler's 'Hudibras'. SOURCE: Victoria County History.

Listing NGR: SO8541151139

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Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924)

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