Building record 1050800000 - NEALE'S FARMHOUSE, READS LANE

Grade II. House Late C16 - early C17, altered mid C18. Timber frame, brick infill with some thin brick. Left gable rebuilt mid C18 in red and vitreous brick with first floor band course and raised brick window surrounds. Old tile roofs, 2 intermediate brick chimneys with grouped shafts and dentilled bases. 2 storeys and attic, 4 bays. Paired barred wooden casements. Outer bays are gabled and projecting with one casement to attic and 2 to each main floor.Central panelled door in moulded architrave surround with later cornice hood. Interior has early C17 oak staircase with turned dumb-bell balusters, heavy moulded handrail and square newel posts. RCHM II p.99 Mon. 8 (B1).

Niels Farm is a house of two storeys built late in the C16th or early in the C17th on an H-shaped plan. The SW front was refaced with brick in the C18th when the doorways and windows were altered, and the chimney stacks rebuilt. The other walls retain their original timber-framing, somewhat closely set, but the brick filling is of late date. Condition - Good (B2).
(SP84582247) Neale's Farm (B3).

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