Description

TR 14 NW LYMINGE MILL LANE
(south-west side)

Stelling Minnis

1/161 Courthope Farm

II

Farmhouse. Late C16, with C18, C19 and C20 alterations. Timber
framed. Facade red and grey brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof.
3 timber-framed bays and stack bay. 2 storeys and attic. Hipped
roof. Large brick ridge stack extending into front slope of roof,
towards right end. Dormer to right hip. Irregular fenestration of 4
two-light casements; three to left and one to right of stack. Ribbed
door under second first-floor window from left, and blocked door with
segmental head to right end. Brick lean-to to right gable end and
1987 brick lean-to to left. Rendered single-storey C19 addition to
rear with hipped plain tile roof. Interior: renewed joists to left
ground-floor room, but evidence for underbuilt jetty to rear.
Fragment of four-centred-arched doorhead with hollow spandrels and
roll-moulding towards front of partition between left and central
rooms. Central ground-floor room has chamfered axial beam and
chamfered beam across stack, both with fleur-de-lys chamfer stops.
Shaped bracket under left end of axial beam. Unchamfered joists.
Brick fireplace with herringbone brick back and four-centred-arched roll-
moulded bressumer with hollow spandrels carved with leaf spears. Right
ground-floor room has beam across stack, and chamfered axial beam.
Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer and bread oven extending to
front wall. Cambered axial tie-beam with short solid-spandrel braces
to left first-floor room. Central tension-braced stud to right gable
end. Exposed framing. Clasped-purlin roof with diminishing principal
rafters and deep collars.

Listing NGR: TR1512841576

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26535057

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey