Description

TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN

SP17SW UMBERSLADE ROAD
652-1/2/187 (West side)
Claybank Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 with later additions and
alterations including C20 ranges to left and right.
Timber-framed with painted render infill and plain-tile roofs
with reddish-brown brick external stack to left of original
range. 3-unit plan with later extensions, now forming L-plan,
that to right partly covers the original range.
EXTERIOR: single storey and attic; 3-window range.
Single-storey, single bay to left. The original range has
close-studded timber-framing to the ground floor and small
panels of square framing and diagonal braces to the upper
stage. Off-centre entrance has a plank door in C20 porch.
Ground floor has 2- and 3-light wooden casement windows
throughout. 2 dormers to original part have casement windows,
further 3-light casement to gable-ended range to right.
INTERIOR: original range has extensive exposed timber-framing,
rear wall has close-studding (partly renewed) to lower stage,
otherwise small panels of square framing. Inglenook fireplace
to left has reused bressumer beam. Jowled corner stud to
right. Exposed tie- and collar-beam roof truss with queen
struts and ridge purlin.
(Victoria County History: Warwickshire: London: 1935-: 166).

Listing NGR: SP1208573420

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662524

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)