Survey Data
Reg No
40402009
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Farnham House
Original Use
Outbuilding
Historical Use
Worker's house
Date
1760 - 1800
Coordinates
239307, 305892
Date Recorded
13/06/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Multiple-bay single- and two-storey farmyard complex, built c.1780, having outbuildings arranged around four courtyards, with some upper storeys formerly also used as worker’s accommodation. Pitched slate roofs, replacement rainwater goods with few sections of cast-iron rainwater goods surviving. Squared rubble limestone walls, some limewashed. Square-headed window and door openings, some cut stone sills. Metal diamond-pane windows at ground level, fixed multiple pane timber windows in places. Sheeted timber or timber louvres to upper level openings. Sheeted timber doors. Courtyards subdivided by buildings and rubble stone walls with square-profile gate piers with pyramidal capstones. Bounded by roughly dressed stone walls and entrance gate of similar type to courtyard at main road to south. Square-headed integral door opening with sheeted timber door to north wall. Walled garden to east of outbuildings with rubble stone lower walls and red brick upper walls with integral segmental-arched red brick dressed entrance to east wall. Rebuilt south wall and red brick west wall.
Appraisal
An extensive complex of outbuildings, associated with Farnham House, that are well-built using good quality local limestone and retaining their original form and character with lime-washed finish and a variety of window, door, and carriage-arch openings. These outbuildings give an insight into the resources required to maintain a substantial country house during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the upper storeys were used as residential accommodation for estate workers, which is an interesting reminder of the variety of accommodation that was provided for the wide range of employees. The boundary walls and remains of the walled garden to the east complete the setting of this notable composition, which is an essential integral component of the ensemble of the Farnham Estate.