Description

BOYTON
SX 39 SW
5/11
- Temperance Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse, now private house. Circa mid C17 extended in mid to late C20. Rendered
and painted stone rubble and cob. Thatched roof with hipped ends. Brick axial
stacks.
Plan: Probably originally of two room and cross or through passage plan heated by
end stacks and with ground sloping down to right; the hall-kitchen on right and the
parlour on left. Service outshut added across rear probably in C18 or C19. In the
mid to late C20 the stables and hayloft which were attached on the right, were
rebuilt to form an extra room and the outshut extension on the left of the house was
also rebuilt to form a fourth and fifth room.
Exterior: Long low house extended by later additions and with ground sloping down to
right. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front. Entrance to right of centre with
C20 porch with thatched roof and partly glazed doors. Flanked by 2 replacement 2-
light casements and C20 glazed doors to left. First floor with 5 replacement 3-
light, 2-light and 1-light casements.
Interior: Central C17 range retains its chamfered ceiling beams. Lintel to right
hand fireplace replaced. Cloam oven. Probably chamfered timber lintel to smaller
left hand fireplace. The roof structure comprises 3 A-frame trusses with halved,
lap-jointed and pegged apices and chamfered collars also halved, lap-jointed and
pegged.
The house is reputed to have been an inn, later becoming a Temperance hotel with the
rise of Methodism in the parish and finally a Temperance farm. It is now a private
house.

Listing NGR: SX3196192073

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613335

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair