Description

TR 14 SW ELMSTEAD MAXTED STREET
3/119
Upper Maxted
Street Farm

II

Farmhouse. Circa 1739, probably with earlier origins. Chequered
red and grey brick. Plain tile roof. Lobby entry plan of one room
each side of stack. Late C20 addition to left. 2 storeys and garret.
Plat band. Cogged brick eaves cornice. Half-hipped roof. Red and
grey brick ridge stack slightly off-centre to right of C18 section.
Regular 3-window front of three-light multi-pane casements. Similar
windows to ground floor, with segmental relieving arches. Half-glazed
door behind central brick porch with weatherboarded gable and plain
tile roof. 1739 datestone with heart, over door. Sun Insurance plaque.
Interior: incorporates timber from an early-C16 or earlier house.
Chamfered axial beam off-centre towards front of left ground-floor
room. Cross beam between left room and entrance lobby with traces
of moulding and brattishing. Cross beam to right of stack and re-
used joists to right room. More re-used timber to first floor, including
pieces of a moulded octagonal crown post. Staggered butt purlin roof.
Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer. Early C18 splat balusters
to first-floor landing.

Listing NGR: TR1260944701

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534768

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]