Description

SUNK ISLAND EAST BANK ROAD
TA 21 NE
(south side, off)
10/81 Middle Farmhouse
GV II

Farmhouse. 1855 by S S Teulon for the Crown Commissioners. Red brick in
Flemish bond. Welsh slate roof. Approximately T-shaped on plan: 2-room
east entrance front with entrance hall to left, and single-room wing to
right; twin-gabled wing to rear, with garden entrance to left return. East
front: 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows; asymmetrical, with gabled 2-window
section breaking forward to left of centre. Chamfered plinth. Main
entrance has step to recessed board door in chamfered wooden frame and
chamfered segmental-headed brick reveal; chamfered trefoiled panel above
beneath segmental relieving arch, containing painted lozenge-shaped relief
panel with royal cypher, crown and date. Section set forward to right:
ground-floor canted bay window with plate-glass sashes, ashlar lintels and
sills, pair of first-floor 12-pane sashes beneath segmental arches and
segmental-pointed relieving arches with herringbone brick infill, circular
flush brick panel to gable with decorative brick infill, tumbled-in brick
and stepped eaves to gable. Section to right: tall unequal 15-pave ground-
floor sashes, 6-pane first-floor sashes, both with sills and segmental
arches. Corniced axial stack to right. Single-storey 2-window wing set
back to right has board door beneath segmental-pointed arch, 16-pane and 12-
pane sashes beneath segmental arches. Left return forms south garden front
with 4 first-floor windows. Gabled 2-window range set forward to right has
12-pane segmental-headed ground-floor sash, small decorative panel to left
with brick and ashlar insets in chamfered segmental-headed reveal,
segmental-headed 12-pane stair window and first-floor casement, circular
flush brick panel, stepped eaves, and tumbled-in brick to gable. All
windows below pointed relieving arches with decorative brick infill.
Section set back in angle to left has single-storey porch to left with C20
glazed door beneath segmental arch and hipped roof, segmental-headed 18-pane
window to right with similar 9-pane casement to first floor. Wing to left
has 12-pane ground-floor sash beneath segmental and pointed relieving
arches, 12-pane half-dormer with tumbled-in brick to gable. Double-span
roof. Projecting corniced end stack with tumbled-in brick to offsets.
North range of wing has half-hipped roof and adjoining single-storey
outhouse with hipped roof. Interior: closed string staircase with moulded
handrail, chamfered newel and Gothic-style splat balusters with pierced
trefoils; panelled doors in architraves. One of a series of C19 Crown
estate buildings by Teulon. See item 6/76 for sources.

Listing NGR: TA2764218682

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26454836

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper