Furzeley Farm TA 229

Furzeley Farm has a tiled roof, half-hipped to the north and gabled to the south, where there is a single storey lean-to beyond an end stack. The roof extends down over a weather-boarded lean-to addition along the western elevation. The principal multi-flue stack is towards the northern end of the house. The timber-framing of the eastern elevation is exposed, showing that the house has a dropped tie construction which gives adequate attic head height. There is a single dormer window to the west and two to the east.

Furzeley Farm was built as a four bay house with out-shots along the western side and along the southern end. It was fully floored with usable attic space with at least one stack from the start and, if the second is not original, it was added within a short space of time. All the diagnostic features that can be seen would place it in the second half of the 17th century (1650-1700).

Farm buildings
There is a barn to the south of the house, now separately converted, which appears to be contemporary. It is apparently of three bays, the roof half hipped at each end with boarded elevations. From an outshot at the north end of the barn a long single storey brick built range extends eastwards to meet a single storey wing at right angles, the whole presumably forming a yard which faces south.

These notes have been compiled from survey reports prepared by Dr Annabelle Hughes. The original reports have been deposited in the Sussex Archaeological Society Library, Barbican House, Lewes, where they can be consulted by researchers.

Fursley (Furzeley) Farm, 1943 Grantham estate sale catalogue.
ESRO AMS 5824

Tithe Data

Cottage & garden
(Furzeley Farm)

1841 Census

Tenement Analysis

Buildings

Archaeology

Old Maps

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