LEAM FARMHOUSE

LEAM FARMHOUSE, WOLFHAMPCOTE LANE

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Overview

A house, dating from circa 1665, perhaps with earlier origins. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393525
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-2009
List Entry Name:: LEAM FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: LEAM FARMHOUSE, WOLFHAMPCOTE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393525
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-2009
List Entry Name:: LEAM FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LEAM FARMHOUSE, WOLFHAMPCOTE LANE

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:: LEAM FARMHOUSE, WOLFHAMPCOTE LANE

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Rugby (District Authority)
Parish:: Wolfhampcote
National Grid Reference:: SP 50655 65941

Reasons for Designation

Leam Farmhouse at Sawbridge is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * The house dates from at least 1665, and retains significant fabric of this date, including the envelope of the building and some C17 hollow-chamfered windows * Local precedents and the form of the building indicate that the house may well represent a survival of an even earlier house, perhaps dating from the C15 * Although it has not been possible to make an inspection of the building, it is clear from documentary evidence that the house retains fabric from before 1700, and thus fulfils the basic criteria for designation * Group value with the other listed houses of similar date within Sawbridge, including Old House Farmhouse, Manor Farmhouse and Red Roof Farm (all listed Grade II)

Details

WOLFHAMPCOTE

1724/0/10051 WOLFHAMPCOTE LANE 12-NOV-09 Sawbridge Leam Farmhouse

GV II A house, dating from circa 1665, perhaps with earlier origins.

MATERIALS: The building is believed to be of sandstone, now not visible under modern roughcast render, with replacement brick stacks.

PLAN: The house appears to have a two- or three-room plan, with rooms to either side of a central cross-passage.

EXTERIOR: The building is of two storeys and three bays, the central bay including the current entrance doorway. The main elevation has regularly disposed modern casement windows, but the southern return and the rear retain three-light, hollow-chamfered stone mullioned windows with hood moulds, now infilled. There is a datestone inscribed ANNO DOMINE / 1665 / WILLIAM / BASELEY / SB :-: RH to the south gable end.

INTERIOR: Not inspected.

SOURCES: MS 3313/Acc 1929-006/354063, Warwickshire County Record Office: Bond from Thomas Bucknell of Sawbridge...to William Baseley of Sawbridge, yeoman... (14 September 1664); Wolfhampcote parish burial records (1662); A History of the County of Warwick (Victoria County History) Volume 6: Knightlow Hundred (1951), 269-73

HISTORY: The house clearly dates from no later than the C17: it retains windows of this date, and carries a date stone for 1665, also inscribed with the name of William Baseley. Baseley is recorded as a yeoman of Sawbridge in documents in 1664, and his wife Ann had been buried in Wolfhamcote church, the parish of which the hamlet of Sawbridge forms a part, on 10 June 1662. The house, though, may date from considerably earlier, as its form suggests origins as a late medieval hall-house, though it would have been altered in the C17 to create the current form. During the later C20, the main elevation was altered with the addition of modern casement windows in enlarged openings, and buttresses were added to the same elevation; the entire building was covered in roughcast render.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Leam Farmhouse at Sawbridge is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * The house dates from at least 1665, and retains significant fabric of this date, including the envelope of the building and some C17 hollow-chamfered windows * Local precedents and the form of the building indicate that the house may well represent a survival of an even earlier house, perhaps dating from the C15 * Group value with the other listed houses of similar date within the small hamlet of Sawbridge, including Old House Farmhouse, Manor Farmhouse and Red Roof Farm (all listed Grade II)

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 505883
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 369-73

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.