Held at: | Hereford Public Library |
Reference: | Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Herefordshire, Volume 1: H 936.244 |
Source: | Transcript of Original Publication |
Title: | Newhouse Farm: architecture, construction and history |
Place name: | Newton |
Date: | Up to 1700 |
Description:
(2). Newhouse Farm, house, dairy and stable, and barn, 100 yards S.E. of the church. The House is of two storeys with cellars. It is of early 17th-century date and is built on a rectangular plan. Several of the windows retain their old moulded frames and mullions; the windows were originally unglazed and some still have their original internal shutters. Inside the building the ceiling of the southernmost room on the ground floor has a moulded plaster border immediately adjoining the ceiling-beams. The doorway to this room has an old frame with segmental head and a battened door with an old iron scutcheon. On the first floor are some panelled partitions with long stop-chamfered panels. The Dairy, S. of the house, is partly timber-framed; the roof is covered with corrugated iron. It is of early 17th-century date, but the S. wall and part of the N. wall have been rebuilt in stone at a later date. Late in the 17th century the stable was built at the W. end. In the timber-framed N. wall of the dairy is an old segmental-headed doorway.
The Barn, N.W. of the house; is partly timber-framed ; the roof is covered with corrugated iron. It is of five bays; the roof-trusses have sloping struts between the tie-beams and principal rafters.
Observations:
Description documented c 1930 by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments
Ordnance Survey Map Reference and Index of Parish Properties
Ref: rs_nwt_0030