plasticpigeon
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Got to be ideal for someone on here!!!
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41507517.html
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41507517.html
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Roger H
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Magnificent.
Some splendid ribbon pointing inside too!
Some splendid ribbon pointing inside too!
livias
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Oooh lovely! and only a minimum of 20thC abuse from what I can see. Wonder what the * in Grade II * is for
It does surprise me though, that the Conservation Officer / Historic England allowed the developer to do all the new builds around it with no conditions about renovating the old house or leaving it a larger curtilage. Maybe there was a condition that they had to make it watertight and secure
I've found the listing ...
Gretton Farmhouse 4.7.60 - II* Farmhouse. C16 and C17. Limestone ashlar, upper floors, front, rendered on timber framing, stone slate roof with coped end gables and ashlar stacks with moulded cappings and skirts. Main block has two full height gables to symmetrical front with through-passage, and deep back gabled wing, left, also C20 extension with flat roof, back right. Three storeys, 2-windowed, in gables 1:2:1 oriels on double console brackets over 1:3:1 oriels on triple console brackets and with slate roofs, all with diagonal leading; at ground floor, below an offset in the wall, with single slate coping or string course, 4-light stone chamfer mullion casements with king mullions, that to right of door deeper than to left. Centrally 6-panel door set to front of elliptical arch in stopped drip over deep panel with date 1656. Left gable includes small arched stair light, and 2-light chamfered mullion casement with stopped drip. Back gable wall has some stone slate hanging in upper level. A graffito representing a knight on a horse is carved on a stone, low right, in the main front. Interior has very fine extremely flat 4-centred Tudor arch stone fireplace with decorated spandrels, but including carefully matched poured concrete central section; to right of this blocked 2-light mullioned window; another fireplace, left, with large wood bressummer. Both sides ofcross passage with timber framed partitions, and framing in back wall. 3-light chamfered mullion window with drip now looks into new kitchen extension. A very fine survival.
It does surprise me though, that the Conservation Officer / Historic England allowed the developer to do all the new builds around it with no conditions about renovating the old house or leaving it a larger curtilage. Maybe there was a condition that they had to make it watertight and secure
I've found the listing ...
Gretton Farmhouse 4.7.60 - II* Farmhouse. C16 and C17. Limestone ashlar, upper floors, front, rendered on timber framing, stone slate roof with coped end gables and ashlar stacks with moulded cappings and skirts. Main block has two full height gables to symmetrical front with through-passage, and deep back gabled wing, left, also C20 extension with flat roof, back right. Three storeys, 2-windowed, in gables 1:2:1 oriels on double console brackets over 1:3:1 oriels on triple console brackets and with slate roofs, all with diagonal leading; at ground floor, below an offset in the wall, with single slate coping or string course, 4-light stone chamfer mullion casements with king mullions, that to right of door deeper than to left. Centrally 6-panel door set to front of elliptical arch in stopped drip over deep panel with date 1656. Left gable includes small arched stair light, and 2-light chamfered mullion casement with stopped drip. Back gable wall has some stone slate hanging in upper level. A graffito representing a knight on a horse is carved on a stone, low right, in the main front. Interior has very fine extremely flat 4-centred Tudor arch stone fireplace with decorated spandrels, but including carefully matched poured concrete central section; to right of this blocked 2-light mullioned window; another fireplace, left, with large wood bressummer. Both sides ofcross passage with timber framed partitions, and framing in back wall. 3-light chamfered mullion window with drip now looks into new kitchen extension. A very fine survival.
jocelyn plummer
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Atmospheric and full of potential--
jocelyn plummer said:
Mmmm, yes extremely atmospheric
I particularly like the hallway........except that radiator!!! Don't think I could live with another house where the internal walls are exposed stone though.......Will be interesting to see how much it sells for.
Mims x