Description

1. WATCHFIELD HIGHWORTH ROAD
Strattenborough Castle
SU 29 SW 1/80

II

2.
Dated 1792 on the N front to the left of the main door above a ground floor window
Built to double as a working farm and a Gothick eye-catcher for Coleshill House.
Rubble stone and brick with dressed stone quoins and openings. The farmhouse faces
its yard to the S, but its N front rises above the dwelling's roofline to form a wall
with 2 castellated projecting sham towers, one square the other polygonal. The
combination of materials suggests either a late C18 sensitivity to the organic growth
of a building: brick additions to an earlier, stone structure or a complete
rehabilitation at a much later date. The whole N facade is punctuated by mullioned
and cross mullioned windows, some blind, others with 9 pane sashes. Other features
include single and cruciform arrowslits, elaborate string coursing and stone arched
surrounds with brick infil. A wall from the main block links it on the E with a
stepped gabled barn. This is symmetrically balanced to the W by another, larger, barn
with a gabled stone tiled roof which is set further back and has a N end with an
enormous sham window of 5 lights, partly ruinous, all bricked in . Below this
'window' is a genuine C11 Norman tympanum and above it, set in brick, the date 1794.

Listing NGR: SU2373892152

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26649805

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