Description

CARLTON TOWN VILLAGE STREET SE 0684-0784 (north side) 16/91 Ghyll Farmhouse (formerly listed as Gill 13.2.67 Farmhouse) GV II

Farmhouse and cottage, now 1 house. Late C17. Rubble, stone slate roof. End-entry plan, 2 storeys with 2-storey rear outshut and formerly with loft, 3 first-floor windows, one blocked. Quoins to right, and partially between first and second bays. Double-chamfered windows. Ground floor, from left: 4-light window with central king mullion; 4-panel door in cement surround; 2-light window; 4-light window, 2 left lights now altered to door. Moulded string over second and third windows, returning part-way along right gable. First floor, from left: 4-light window with central king mullion; blocked 2- light window at lower level, formerly lighting staircase up side of chimney- breast; 4-light window with central king mullion. Double stack between first and second bays. Rear: some original mullion windows. Right return: board door in chamfered ashlar surround; blocked single-light double- chamfered first-floor window; blocked 2-light double-chamfered mullion window in gable, the original gable having been steeper, for thatch. Interior: board doors; stop-chamfered beams and joists; in ground-floor room to far left, fireplace with segmental arched slab lintel, scored to appear joggled, now incomplete and patched with rubble; stone stairs in open-well plan, with stick balusters, possibly a later modification, and with cheese room and dairy flanking. Thought to have been used at one time as a dame school.

Listing NGR: SE0693684771

External Links

• Wikidata Q26589130

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