Sapley Farmhouse
SAPLEY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329895
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Sapley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SAPLEY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329895
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Sapley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAPLEY 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:
- SAPLEY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Overton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 51673 48487
Details
SU 54 NW
185/4/10009
OVERTON
Sapley Farmhouse
II
Formerly a farmhouse. Circa mid C17; extended circa late C18/early C19; altered C19. Timber-framed; wall-framing replaced in brick and flint, roughcast at front; Flemish bond brick wing. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and gable-end stacks.
PLAN: 4-room plan with lobby entrance in front of axial stack with back-to-back fireplaces heating parlour at right-hand [S] end and hall at centre right; and kitchen at left [N] end with a gable-end stack; there is an unheated room between the hall and kitchen. A short late C18/early C19 brick wing at the rear of the right end, and what might have been a stair tower in the angle, rebuilt in the C19 when the wall-framing of the main range was rebuilt.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 4-window west front; C20 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars; doorway to right of centre with flush-panel door and later C19 gabled open timber porch; doorway to left of centre with glazed door and side lights. At rear [E], red brick with bands of flint, gable-ended brick wing on left, and gabled flint and brick former stair tower in the angle; C20 casements.
INTERIOR in course of being restored at time of inspection. Right-hand room [parlour] has a C17 brick fireplace with a chamfered cambered arch, and early C18 corner cupboard with panelled arch doors and keyblock. Centre right room [hall] has chamfered axial beam with cyma stops and brick fireplace with curved back and renewed bressumer. Unheated centre room has chamfered axial beam with straight cut stops and unchamfered joists partly removed. Left room [kitchen] has chamfered axial beam with hollow step stops and large unchamfered joists; large fireplace with chamfered bressumer with cyma stop at one end. First floor chamfered axial beams with cyma stops, and with C17 arched brick fireplace. Timber-framed cross walls. 4-bay, plus chimney bay, queen-post roof structure with clasped purlins and common-rafter couples. Some old plank doors.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477787
- 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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