Newbury Farmhouse

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BILDESTON HIGH STREET 1.

5377 (east side) No 22 (Newbury Farmhouse) TL 9949 51/28 23.1.58.

II* 2.

Originally the Manor House. It is the remaining part of a larger house.

A Cl5-C16 timber-framed and plastered building. Well restored. Two storeys. The upper storey is jettied on the front with carved bressumer, curved brackets, carved capitals and moulded shafts. The exposed joists are supported on a wall plate which is partly carved. Two window range of casements with lattice leaded lights. The ground storey has 2 C18 3-light casements and 2 original windows with moulded mullions and carved lintel and sill with oak leaf pattern. A fine original gabled porch projects on the front with a bressumer carved with oak leaf pattern and supported by brackets, capitals and shafts. There is a 4-centred outer doorway with carved spandrels, and lintel and an inner boarded door with nailed fillets and similar carved spandrels and lintel. The bargeboards are modern restoration. Roof tiled, with a ridge chimney stack on the south end. The interior has good features including moulded beams and fireplace lintel.

Listing NGR: TL9939949075

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1722 IOE Records taken by Ben Robinson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Ben Robinson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project