Building record 1093900000 - NEW FARMHOUSE, ST MARY'S ROAD

Grade II. House. Early C17, altered and refronted 1675 (formerly dated over front door), altered again C19 and C20, Ground floor is of dressed stone with rendered voussoir heads to windows. First floor is pebble-dashed. C19 tile roof with some fishscale patterning. Boxed eaves with moulded rail of former coving. 2 large chimney stacks of C17 brick to rear, that to left with flat pilasters, that to right with 'V' pilasters. 2 storeys and attic, 3 irregular bays. C20 barred wooden casements. Flush-panelled door between left-hand windows has wooden architrave frame, barred rectangular fanlight and rendered panel above with the coat of arms of Edmund and Mary Verney. Flanking single storey extensions. C19 brick and tile L-plan ranges to rear. Attic windows in gables. RCHM II p. 103 Mon. 3 (B1).
Documentary evidence indicates New Farm being in existence pre-1675 when it was remodelled by Edmund and Mary Verney. Timber scantling, internal bracing, bridle butted scarf joint and wattle and daub, suggest a 16th-century construction date (B2).