Description

DIPTFORD SX75Nll Lower Holsome including 4/223 front garden area wall, gate-piers and mounting block

GV II

Farmhouse. Probably mid C17, refashioned in early C19 and with mid C20 interior alterations. Slate rubble, with slate hung front. Slate roof with hipped end to right and gabled at left end, and with gabled-ended rear wings. Rendered chimney stacks 2 at the rear of the front range at the junction with the rear wings and a gable end stack at the rear of the right hand wing. Plan: Appears to be a one-build house of the mid C17, although there may be earlier fabric. The front range is of 2-room plan, the larger left hand room might have been the best parlour and the right hand room a smaller parlour with an entrance passage between the 2 rooms. The passage leads to the stairwell at the back. Behind the left hand room a dairy in a 2 storey wing, and behind the right hand room another 2 storey larger wing containing the kitchen with a gable end fireplace. The 2 front rooms are heated from rear fireplaces in stacks at the junction with the rear wings. In the early C19 the front of the house was refenestrated and there may have been some internal refashioning at that time as well, but in the mid C20 the interior was stripped of its earlier joinery including the staircase and most of the C17 work that survives is covered up. The house at the left end is built into the back and the ground at the right end falls away. Exterior: 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 4-window front. Circa early C19 16-pane sashed with granite cills, the first floor right hand sash replaced with facsimile in C20. Doorway to right of centre with circa early C19 flush panel door, the top 4 panels glazed and flat canopy on large shaped brackets with braces. The right hand side of the right hand rear wing has a section of string course; some blocked window openings, 2 C20 casements and one late C19 casement and a lean-to outshut on the rear right hand corner. The inner face of the right hand wing has external steps up to a probably C19 loft doorway with a gabled head. The left hand rear wing has only one small ground floor window on the outer side and a circa late C19 3-light casement on the ground and first floor of gable end, the ground floor window having slate weathering above. The inner face of the left hand wing has a small raking buttress. Between the two wings a C20 stair window. Interior: the interior is largely refurbished but the plan is intact and the following features survive. A fireplace in the right hand room has a wooden lintel with ovolo moulding and hollow steps and dressed slate jambs. Chamfered wooden doorframe into the dairy with true mitres. 2 ovolo moulded oak doorframes in the barn came from the blocked doorway to right of passage. Only the ground storey was inspected. The Roof: structure is said to have been replaced except for some of the principal rafters. Including the front garden area wall with gate-piers and mounting block. Slate rubble wall with rounded corners and slate coping. Tall square-on- plan gate-piers with slate caps opposite the front doorway. To the right inside the gateway a mounting block with slate steps.

Listing NGR: SX7331355870

External Links

• Wikidata Q26506307

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