Description

ST 69 SW OLDBURY-UPON-SEVERN OLDBURY NAITE

4/160 Holt Farmhouse

- II

Farmhouse. C16 origin, late C16 or early C17 west block, with later alterations
and additions. Rubble, rendered at front, brick, pantiled roof with north
gable stack with diagonal chimney, brick south gable stack, double Roman tiled
roof to north addition. Originally 2-room plan, extended to L-plan.
1½ storeys, 2 windows, small gable to left, gable end to right, each with 2-light
casement, to left with timber lintel; ground floor has 3-light casement to left
and gabled porch, heavy door with chamfered frame and scroll stops, strap
hinges with fleur-de-lys ends. Single storey addition to right in brick and
rubble with pitched roof, C19 pointed arched door and C20 window, single storey
former bakehouse to left with plank door and brick gable stack. East elevation
has 2 small gables, each with C20 2-light window with timber lintel, ground
floor left has remains of projecting oven, 2-light and 3-light casement and C20
door, single storey C20 addition to north. Rear has small gable to north and
west, to west with 2-light window with chamfered mullion and frame, blocked to
north, both with timber lintel, blocked stair window to west, timber lintel
remaining, ground floor has 2-light window with timber lintel to north and west,
to north with chamfered mullion and frame, C20 rear addition has buttress, door
and window. Interior: chamfered beams with scroll stops, passage separated
from west room by fixed dresser and settle with shaped ends, door frame to east
chamfered and cut back for passage of barrels, winder stair to rear of former
hall, deep splayed reveals to windows. (Sources: Hall, Linda : unpublished
survey, NMR).

Listing NGR: ST6204693924

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26606980

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)