Richard Jefferies Museum

Heritage listing

Details SWINDON 1097/4/57 MARLBOROUGH ROAD 02-OCT-51 COATE RICHARD JEFFERIES MUSEUM (Formerly listed as: MARLBOROUGH ROAD COATE COATE FARMHOUSE) II A C17 farmhouse with an adjoining early C19 house, now used as a museum. EXTERIOR: The C17 house is built of limestone rubble with a thatched roof and brick gable stack. The low, one storey building, with attic above, has a two-bay east front with a central entrance porch (added later) and an early C19, slate cat slide extension to the south and west ends. The early C19 farmhouse is attached to its west. It is a three storey building constructed of Flemish bond brickwork with a slate roof, with brick chimney stacks at both gable ends. The north front has three bays with an entrance left of centre comprising a six-panelled door with splayed stone lintel, flanked to the left by a hipped bay window with twenty-pane sashes and to the right by a three-light leaded timber window with a splayed stone lintel. Above the entrance on first floor level is a two-light leaded timber window flanked on either side by three-light leaded windows, all with splayed stone lintels. Above the latter at attic level are two smaller three-light leaded timber windows. The rear of the house to the south has scattered fenestration, and the west gable end has two-light timber windows to the right on first floor and attic level. INTERIOR: The C17 farmhouse has been significantly altered and restored in the C19 and C20. The early C19 house has panelled window reveals on ground and first floor levels. There is a contemporary inlaid slate fireplace on ground floor level and in the first floor bed room a timber fire surround with grate and a built-in six-panelled wardrobe. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: The garden, orchard and farmyard at the Richard Jefferies Museum,

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.