Steep Farmhouse
STEEP FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268264
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Steep Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- STEEP FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268264
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Steep Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- STEEP 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:
- STEEP FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- East Hampshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steep
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 74937 25554
Details
STEEP
SU 72 NW
Steep Farmhouse
1068-0/9/10007
II
Farmhouse. Circa C16, partly demolished and extended in C17 and C18. Timber-framed faced in Flemish bond brick and with extensions in English or English garden wall bond and flint with brick dressings. Clay plain tile roofs with gabled and half-hipped ends. Brick axial stack with square shafts. PLAN: Long 4-room-plan range with a cross-wing at the right-hand end, and axial stack between the cross-wing and main range with back to back fireplaces, a porch in the angle at the front and an outshut at the back. The three right-hand roof bays of the main range are all that remaiIlS of the original timber-framed house, which was partly demolished when, in about the mid C17 a further four bays (two rooms in plan) were added to the left end in brick, and possibly later in the C17 a cross-wing was built at the right-hand end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Long 6-window north front with gabled flint cross-wing to right and gabled 2-storey flint porch in tile angle; 2 and 3 light wooden-framed windows with iron casements with leaded panes, some with cambered brick arches; small ovolo-moulded stone mullion 2-light window to left on ground floor; doorway near centre with plank door and gabled wooden canopy. At rear tile main range roof is carried down over outshut to lower eaves; four gabled dormers. INTERIOR: Chamfered ceiling beams and exposed joists; fireplaces with replaced bressumers. Root The original part of the main range has a 3-bay roof with smoke-blacked purlins and common-rafter couples and to its left a timber-framed gable- end with a diamond-mullion windows now inside the roof; built against it to the left with staggered tenoned (butt) purlins. The cross-wing at the right end has a 4-bay tenoned purlin roof augmented with struts.
Listing NGR: SU7452125838
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462025
- 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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