| Description | Newlands (farmhouse), Upperthong. Stone built farm house dated 1746 with added laithe.
'Farmhouse and barn in one range. Dated 1746. Deeply coursed millstone grit. Barn rendered. Stone slate roof with gabled extension to rear. One hammer dressed stone stack. Two storeys. South east elevation: house: doorway to right with deep lintel. Datestone over reads: M I H 1746. To left of doorway is one 4 light and one 3 light double chamfered stone mullioned window. To first floor is one 3 light, one 2 light and one 4 light double chamfered stone mullioned window (the 2 light window has mullion removed). Later gabled extension to rear. Later extension to right gable part obscures 2 blocked windows with round false arch. Barn has entrance and large doorway (possibly later) and small vent. Interior of barn: 2 single trusses with purlins and struts. Principle rafters are crossed at apex and half lapped and pegged, and cradle ridge piece'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 04/08/1983. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1313590. Web site accessed 09/10/2013).
Newlands was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Colum Giles in 1981 as part of the WYAS/RCHME Rural Houses Survey. The photographic images and sketch plan produced by the assessment are held by WYAAS (Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1981). The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'This is a stone house, dated 1746. It is of two storeys, faces south and is built of coursed rubble gritstone. A laithe has been added to the west gable, and a wing added to the rear.
The south front of the house retains most of its original detail. The windows have recessed and splayed mullions, and the doorway at the east end has a narrow chamfered surround and a lintel with a recessed Tudor arch. The style of windows and doorways might suggest an earlier date than 1746; this is the date that appears with the initials 'I M H' on the datestone over the doorway. In this part of the County, styles persist for a long period, however, and it is likely that the date does indeed record the building's construction. In the east gable wall there are some blocked openings; on the ground floor there is a single light round headed window, and above there is a similar opening and an oval window.
The doorway opens into the main room, the housebody, at the opposite end to the fireplace. This fireplace is on the west wall, and shares the central stack with a fireplace heating a parlour to the west. All interior detail is late in date, and it is unclear whether the stack is original. The northern spine beam in the housebody is broken some three feet from the gable wall; this may indicate the site of a stair inserted when the house was subdivided into two cottages. The blocked doorway at the south west corner of the parlour presumably dates from the subdivision as well. The rear wing appears to be of late 18th century or early 19th century date, and was probably added to provide increased service area'.
(Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1981. 'Newlands, Upperthong'). |