Description

SLAPTON SX84SW Sloutts Farmhouse 8/81 including front garden area walls, railings and gatepiers

II

Farmhouse. Circa early C19. Slate rubble with red brick window arches, right hand gable and partly slate-hung slate roof with gabled ends. Brick shafts to gable end and axial stacks. Plan: Double depth rectangular plan with 2 principal rooms at the front, central entrance hall between smaller service rooms at the back, the right hand back room the kitchen, the left hand rear room appears to be unheated and was probably the dairy. On the right hand end a lower 2-storey and cellar wing is set back from the front and probably of 1-room plan with a gable end stack, it might be a later C19 extension. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front to main part of house and 2 window 2 storey and cellar wing set back on right. The main part of the 3 bay part has sash windows with flat brick arches with keystones only the centre and right hand first floor have original 16-pane sashes (the glazing bars of top right hand sash have been removed), the other sashes have later C19 4-pane sashes. Early C19 doorway with early C19 6-panel door, panelled reveals, pilasters and wooden portico with slender Tuscan columns and entablature canopy with a panelled soffit. Set back on right lower gable-ended wing with C19 16-pane sash on first floor, 2-light casement to left and later C19 or C20 4-pane sash on ground floor to right above a C19 plank door to cellar; right hand return has louvred cellar window in blocked earlier entrance. Rear elevation not inspected. Including garden area wall at front, circa early C19, low slate rubble with slate capping and end piers; the railings only survive to the right of the gateway which is towards the right end and has square dressed slate piers with moulded slate caps and C20 gate. Interior: Not inspected Panelled window shutters moulded architraves to arched alcove in front rooms and original staircase were observed.

Listing NGR: SX8197444955

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)