Down Farmhouse
DOWN FARMHOUSE, PORT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267958
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Down Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DOWN FARMHOUSE, PORT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267958
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Down Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWN FARMHOUSE, PORT LANE
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:
- DOWN FARMHOUSE, PORT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Winchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hursley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 44460 26601
Details
HURSLEY
SU 42 NW PORT LANE
310-0/4/10001
Down Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C18, extended in about 1900. Red brick in Flemish bond and extension in stretcher bond. Clay plain tile roof with half-hipped ends. Brick axial stack. PLAN: Two front rooms and central entrance lobby in front of winder stairs situated beside the axial stack with back-to-back fireplaces and with small service rooms in integral outshut at the rear. In about 1900 a 1-bay extension was built at the right [SE] end. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 3-window south west front, right-hand bay is the addition. 3-light casements in openings with cambered arches, that on left has C19 cast-iron casements with lozenge panes. Doorway to left of centre with circa 1900 gabled brick porch. Three hipped dormers, small earlier dormer with lozenge pane casements. At rear the roof is carried down as catslide over outshut with hipped dormer. Roof truss exposed on left [NW] end gable. INTERIOR: Chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops. Fireplaces blocked by later insertions, attic fireplace has cast-iron chimneypiece. Plank doors. Original roof, its principal rafters are cranked, rather like raised crucks.
Listing NGR: SU4286625323
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462390
- 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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