Listed Building: MAYHEWS FARMHOUSE (280609)

OLD NEWTON BROWN STREET TM 06 SE WITH DAGWORTH 5/126 Mayhews Farmhouse -- II Former farmhouse; early C16, extended to right c.1550-70. 2 storeys. Timber- framed and plastered. Thatched roof, hipped at right hand end. An axial chimney rebuilt of mid C20 red brick. C19 end chimneys of red brick to left and right. C20 small-pane casements. Two mid C20 gabled Roman pantiled entrance porches with framed and boarded doors. A complex C16 building in two equal halves: to left is a block with coupled-rafter roof, containing a smoke bay at extreme left. Part of its dividing partition remains with blackened plaster. Chamfered floor joists of late C16 type are perhaps a later introduction. To right of the main chimney is a mid C16 block with heavy framing: unchamfered floor joists, reversed arch windbraced close studding, a queen post roof with jowled and arch braced posts. Listing NGR: TM0640463659