Sole Farm House

Sole Farm House, Wickham Heath, RG20 8PN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312946
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: Sole Farm House
Statutory Address:: Sole Farm House, Wickham Heath, RG20 8PN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312946
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: Sole Farm House
Statutory Address 1:: Sole Farm House, Wickham Heath, RG20 8PN

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:: Sole Farm House, Wickham Heath, RG20 8PN

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Welford
National Grid Reference:: SU 41136 71170

Details

SU 47 SW 12/14

WELFORD WICKHAM HEATH Sole Farm House

II

Farmhouse, now house. C17 with C18 refacing and C19 additions. Flint with brick dressings, brick and timber frame with brick infill; plain tiled roofs. Two bay house with two bay cross wing and stair tower. To rear surrounded by later additions. One and a half storeys with three gabled eaves dormers to west, and flanking and central ridge stacks.

West elevation: Main body of house to left; facing of flint with red brick strips forming pattern of rectangles with door under gabled porch to left, one casement and one glazing bar sash in centre and door under lean-to porch adjacent to cross wing. Eaves dormers above and ridge higher than that of cross wing; Cross wing to right: brick facing, one casement to each floor.

South elevation: two bays of timber frame with straight braces to left and brick extension with red stretchers and grey headers to right. Large, English bond C17 brick stack across left-hand bay of framing. C20 door and casement in central bay with two-light casement over.

Interior: altered, but much framing still visible. Central stack has large fireplaces, that in the kitchen with moulded cambered beam and shelf over. Staircase, C17 framed newel stair with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SU4113671170

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 39800
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.