Building record 0102702000 - POLLICOTT FARMHOUSE

Grade II. Farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17, altered. Originally timber framed, but much refaced or rebuilt in rubblestone and brick. Old tile roofs. 4 bays and 2 storeys with attics. North or entrance front colourwashed rubble with entrance bay plastered timber framing in second bay from right. 6 panel door with flat hood on cut scroll brackets. Band course between storeys on rubble bays. 3-light casements, some leaded. 4-light to second bay ground floor window, lean-to at right. South elevation has off centre staircase turret, double gable projection to its right and a lean-to, all in brick. At left massive stone stack with brick shaft. To right bays, large brickstacks each with 3 diagonal flues and corbelled caps. Sash windows, some casements. West gable elevation rubblestone ground floor, rendered first floor, both with sashes, tripartite to ground floor, brick gable with 2-light leaded casement. East gable elevations timber framed with brick infill most of timbers plastered over. Interior. Ground and first floor rooms have chamfered and stopped spine beams. 3 rooms lined with original oak panelling. Central newel and upper treads of staircase in staircase wing are original oak. RCHM I.15. MON.5.(B7)
Dendro-dating obtains a felling date of 1581-2 for timbers from frame. A secondary date of 1799 relates to repairs (B8).
Buildings report held at NMR (B9)


Pollicott Farm is two-storeyed with an attic, built late in the C16th early C17th, and originally timber-framed, but much of the walling was refaced with stone rubble about a century later. The roofs are tiled. The plan consists of a rectangular block facing East, and a wid shallow wing at the rear, South of the centre line , with a smaller wing in the NW angle containing the staircase. The East front has, in the middle, part of the original timber-framing, now covered with plaster, and the original entrance with a moulded oak frame. The rest of this wall has been refaced with stone rubble and has brick dressings of late C17th or early C18th date. The North end is of stone rubble with similar brick dressings, but the gable has an original barge-board. The South end is gabled with an infilling of C18th brick. At the rear, the main block and the gabled staircase wing are refaced with modern brick. The ground floor of the other wing is early C17th brick, while the upper floor is modern brick and
has two gables. Condition - Good (B4).

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