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SO 61 NE LONGHOPE MONMOUTH ROAD
(north side) 6/131 Hartsbarn Farmhouse 23.9.55
GV II Farm house; early and late C17 or early C18; front facade English
garden wall bond brick, remainder random rubble stonework: slate
roof. 3-room plan with projecting rear wing. Front 7 windows,
central slightly more closely spaced, 2 storeys with attics.
Windows timber mullion and transom, cyma moulding internally, iron
casements, flat, rubbed-brick arches; recessed rectangular panels
below first-floor windows. Four-panel wide front door, with
square-headed 2-pane fanlight, up three semi-circular stone steps.
Above a plain shell hood, on acanthus consoles. Stone plinth to
left with elliptical heads to cellar windows: on far left steps up
from cellar to garden. Curved, plastered eaves with low, central
pediment, containing circular leaded-light window with raised rim
and keys. Right-hand gable shows line of earlier, steeper-pitch
front roof: 4-light dairy window set towards back, three glazed
lights, one shuttered, all with diamond-set iron bars: timber
lintel. Above 4-light timber mullion window, plain chamfer,
timber lintel with flat stone hoodmould above: similar 3-light
window to second floor and lintel only surviving of window to
cockloft. Slightly-recessed lean-to wing behind.
Internally 2-panel doors in hall and on first floor, latter with H-
hinges. Spiral-twisted balusters to stairs, heavy, moulded
handrail, plain, square newels; originally open down to cellar.
Stair in projecting rear wing. Rooms to right lower ceilings and
upper floors, left from first house: facade taken across, so that
windows rise above ceiling level. Roof of right-hand section has
collar trusses with angle struts, one principal rafter taken down
like upper cruck.
Listing NGR: SO6759518478
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