Survey Data
Reg No
40402007
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
238599, 306267
Date Recorded
11/06/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Terrace of four three-bay single-storey former workers’ houses, built c.1830, with recent extension to rear of eastern house. Now in use as private houses. Pitched slate roof with oversailing eaves to gable supported by timber battens, small skylight to rear pitch of roofs, rendered red brick chimneystacks, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render to squared rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings with stone sills. Multiple pane timber casement windows with fixed double-pane overlight to front elevation, fixed four-pane windows to gable and rear elevation. uPVC windows to eastern two houses. Sheeted timber doors to western two houses. Door to one of eastern two houses blocked, other replaced uPVC door. Single cast-iron gate with fleur-de-lis finial provides access to path to front of houses.
Appraisal
This terrace of attractive, small-scale, former estate workers’ houses retains its early form and character. The terrace is of modest design and retains many salient features, especially the western two houses, with distinctive original casement windows and doors. They are an integral part of the architectural and landscape ensemble of the demesne of Farnham House and provide insight into the historical workings of a large country estate.