Listing Text

SK 79 NE HAXEY BRACKENHILL ROAD
(south side)
East Lound
14/98 Lound Tree Farmhouse
15.7.87
- II

Farmhouse. 1787. Red brick with pantile roof. Double-depth plan with
2-room, central entrance-hall west front. Gable end to street. 2 storeys
with attic, 3 bays; symmetrical. 5-fielded-panel door (3 vertical over
2 horizontal panels) and plain overlight beneath segmental stretcher arch.
C19 4-pane sashes in original C18 flush wooden architraves with sills beneath
segmental stretcher arches. Similar first-floor windows beneath original
soldier arches. Stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice. Tumbled-in brick
to raised gables. End stacks, C20 rebuild to right, rendered to left. Left
gable end has 12-pane sliding sash, blocked attic doorway beneath segmental
arch, and wrought-iron letters and figures:

E H
1 7 8 7

Rear, facing foldyard: central 6-fielded-panel door flanked by 12-pane
sliding sash to left, 3-light sliding sash with glazing bars to right, all
beneath segmental arches. First floor: large central board door beneath
segmental arch, with 12-pane sliding sash to left. Interior retains
original features; not investigated. One of the least altered late C18
farmhouses in the Isle of Axholme.

Listing NGR: SK7856199761