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farm house

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Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c. 1780, with later windbreak porch to front (south) and lean-to extension to side (east). Hipped thatch roof with red brick chimneystack and gabble to side (east). Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth band. Square-headed window openings with render sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening within windbreak having timber panelled door. Rubble stone outbuildings with pitched corrugated-iron roof and square-headed door openings with corrugated door. Located within own grounds having rendered boundary wall with square-profile gate piers flanking wrought-iron gates to front of site.
This fine vernacular farmhouse illustrates the scale, form, and detail of the modest vernacular rural dwellings of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The thatched farmhouse flanked by its associated farm buildings is a picturesque component of the rural landscape. It contains various interesting details including a windbreak and timber sash windows.

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