Description

MARSTON BOULTS LANE
SP50NW (South side)
Old Marston
4/131 No.8 (Halford House)

- II

Farmhouse, now house. Mid/late C17. Limestone rubble,partly rendered,and timber
lintels; concrete plain-tile roof and brick gable stacks. 2-unit plan with stair
tower. 2 storeys plus attics. 2-window front, to garden, has door to right of
centre with 2-light casements at ground and first floors, some reduced in width.
C19 brick gable outshut to right. Gable walls contain attic casements and other
blocked windows. Central gabled stair tower at rear contains present entrance.
Interior: Timber-framed cross partition with elaborately-moulded jowled posts;
timber framed partition to tower with paired chamfered door frames at all
floors; chamfered and stopped beams. Walls and tower show signs of having been
raised from 2 storeys, probably in early C18.

Listing NGR: SP5287808426

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26650569

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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