Description

DEAN PRIOR -
SX 76 SW
6/1 Addislade
GV II*

Farmhouse. Circa late C16 with C17 alterations and additions. Roughcast stone
rubble. Bitumenised scantle slate roof with gabled ends. Ridge over higher
end and hall has early crested ridge tiles. Three room and through passage
plan, with gable end stacks and axial hall stack backing onto passage. Newel
stairs originally at rear ot lower end of hall, replaced circa C17 by gabled
stair tower. Gable added to front of higher end, gabled part to through passage
and C17 granary over dairy wing projecting at front of lower end. Two storeys.
Four window range. Circa C17 gable to left. Two storeyed gabled porch to right
of centre with large round arch and early C19 panelled inner door. C19 three
and four-light casements. Wing projecting at lower end to right has half-hipped
roof, external steps to left door in gable end with pigeon-holes above. Left
hand return has C17 doorframe with double ovolo mould and nail-studded door
with cover moulds and decorated wrought iron hinges. On opposite north side
of wing two timber ovolo moulded windows (one blocked). Kitchen stack at lower
end has smoking chamber with round corbelled stone roof complete with stone shelf
around base. Interior: Plank and mintum screen between hall and inner room
removed. Plain chamfered hall and inner room ceiling beams. Blocked inner
room and hall fireplaces. Solid wall between through passage and lower room
(kitchen) which is at lower level to passage. Kitchen gable end fireplace is
blocked. Roof over hall and higher end entirely clear with four trusses, possibly
jointed cruck trusses with morticed apices and morticular threaded purlins which
are mostly missing, and lap-jointed dovetail collars which are thin and wavey.
Roof over lower end has principals morticed at apices and with two tiers of
threaded purlins, one purlin appears to be smoke-blackened. Granary and dairy
wing has fireplaces on ground and first floors with ovolo moulded timber lintels
with bar stops. Roof has principals with morticed apices and threaded purlins,
purlins missing. A substantial and largely unaltered farmhouse.

Listing NGR: SX7154264055

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534643

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