Description

TL 20 NW COLNEY HEATH SLEAPSHYDE LANE
(north east side)
SLEAPSHYDE

11/29 Sleapshyde Farmhouse

20.11.79

II

Farmhouse. Early C16 hall house, altered and floored in later
C17. Timber frame. Cement-rendered with combed pargetting in
panels. Half-hipped plain tile roof with massive C17 red brick
chimney stack at centre. 2 storeys. 3 C20 glazing bar
casements. C20 door beneath stack. Gabled tiled door hood with
slender early Cl9 cast iron columns. Rear elevation shows a
central gabled stair tower behind the stack, and at N single-
storey C17-18 service extension with large oven stack on gable
end. The interior is 4 bays. Former hall to right of stack,
parlour bay to left; mid C16 extension on left end; service bay
on right end. Hall ground floor has fine late C17 bolection-
moulded panelling, enriched cornice and eared fire surround; 2-
panelled door and panelled carving to beam. C17 turned balusters
to stair landing. Heavy curved braces in walls and heavy jointed
post in SW corner to 1st floor.

Listing NGR: TL2034106901

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26630677

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014