Survey Data
Reg No
15613002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
311413, 134480
Date Recorded
23/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Undergoing renovation, 2007. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof undergoing repair with red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls with limewashed clasping battered buttress to corner. Square-headed off-central door opening in curvilinear-headed recess with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings including lintel framing replacement glazed uPVC panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including lintels framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows with six-over-six timber sash windows to rear (north) elevation having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds on a corner site with replacement concrete block piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting mild steel double gates.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of the outskirts of Blackwater by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form off-centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette with sections of "daub" or mud suggested by a stabilising buttress; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing an oat thatch finish presently (2007) undergoing replenishment: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of a farmhouse making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.