Description

SWIMBRIDGE
SS 62 NW
11/159 Bickle Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Probably early C16, remodelled 1729 (datestone) and extended in C20 to
rear. Stone rubble. Slate roof with clay ridge tiles, hipped at right end. Tall
brick stack at right end. Brick shaft to lateral rubble stack to rear enclosed in
C20 2-storey outshut. Possibly 3-room-and-cross-passage former open hall plan with
shippon attached at lower end, now taken in as part of dwelling. 1 1/2 storeys. 4
window range of half dormers with 2-light casements, 8 panes per light. C20
fenestration. 3 doorways, that to centre has stone rubble porch and slated canopy,
the porch to right is flanked by buttresses. Small 1729 datestone to left of
centre porch. Stopped and moulded beams to room to right of cross-passage, but
only roofspace could be closely inspected. From upper end: 3 trusses probably the
date of the remodelling with threaded purlins and ridge purl in and lap-jointed
collars all clean, a single C16 truss set lower than the rest with some
smokeblackening, pierced for purlins and morticed and tenoned collar, another clean
truss with trenched purlins and over the shippon an apparently reused blade of a
clean cruck truss, the elbow at the head arching over and resting on a straight
principal rafter, both pierced for purlins.

Listing NGR: SS6072728050

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26603593

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)