Description

SOUTH KIRBY STOCKINGATE
SE41SE
(south side)
6/79 Stockingate Farmhouse
-
- II

Farmhouse, now house. Early to mid C18; enlarged and altered. Coursed
squared sandstone with quoins, slate roof. L-shaped plan forded by single
depth 2-unit front range with outshut added to rear of 2nd unit at an early
date. Three storeys and 2 bays, symmetrical; central doorway with plain
surround, flanked by modern French windows; square windows at 1st floor, that
on the right a horizontal-sliding sash with glazing bars, the other altered;
low rectangular windows at 2nd floor, both 3-light horizontal-sliding sashes
with rendered surrounds (perhaps formerly mullioned); gable copings with
kneelers; gable chimneys, that on the left external. Right-hand return wall
has altered or inserted windows. Full-height outshut has blocked doorway in
rear wall; recent addition in re-entrant angle.
Interior: chamfered spine beams and joists in both rooms at ground and 1st
floors; large rectangular stone fireplace in housebody to right, and in
outshut to rear of this; central staircase rising in one flight from front to
rear on both levels; in chamber to left, a small rectangular fireplace with
iron grate flanked by cheeks and hobs of stone (an unusual survival); in each
attic a large collar rafter roof truss, pegged. (Item closely resembles
Kirby cannon Farmhouse, Common Road, and Arden Farmhouse, Mill Lane (q.v.)).

Listing NGR: SE4501910593

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26555930

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