Description

SINNINGTON MARTON ROAD
SE 78 SW
(west side, off)
10/83 Sinnington Lodge and
attached garden wall
- II
Farmhouse. Late C18; early Cl9 alteration and extension; extension raised,
altered and extended further in late C19. House in red and cream brick in
Flemish bond on herringbone-tooled sandstone plinth; pantile roof.
Extension in red and burnt brick in English garden wall bond with slate
roof. Timber doorcases to house. Central-stairhall plan, 2 rooms deep,
with service extension added. Entrance front: 2 storeys and basement,
3 windows with lower 2-storey, 2-window extension to right. Door of
6 raised and fielded panels beneath radial fanlight in open-pedimented
doorcase with coved fluted capitals. To the left, below ground level, is a
plank cellar door. Windows are 16-pane sashes with painted stone sills and
flat arches of gauged brick. Coped gables and end stacks. Extension has
20-pane sashes to ground floor and unequal 15-pane sashes to first floor,
with painted stone sills and flat arches. Central ridge stack and end right
stack piercing hipped roof. Garden front: 2-storey, 3-window front with
lower 2-storey extension to left. Round-arched doorcase with keystone and
imposts beneath cornice hood on grooved consoles, approached by short flight
of steps. Recessed door of 6 raised and fielded panels beneath blind
Gothick fanlight. Over the door is a round-headed, Gothick-glazed sash
window beneath a gauged brick arch. Painted stone sill rests on door
cornice. Remaining windows are 16-pane sashes with painted stone sills and
flat arches of gauged brick. The only openings to the extension are 2 small
fixed lights to the right of the ground and first floor. Gable ends: paired
12-pane sashes recessed beneath cambered brick arches. Interior: cut-string
dogleg staircase with stick balusters, moulded handrail ramped up and
wreathed at the foot around a column newel, and scrolled tread ends. All
main rooms on both floors have moulded ceiling cornices and original
chimney-pieces, those on the ground floor with composition mouldings. Doors
of 6 raised and fielded panels survive throughout. Attic: 2 double-tiered
trusses with curved principals, possibly reused crucks. In the westernmost
bay 3 boxed bedframes survive against the outer wall. Garden wall: attached
to the left end of the entrance front: red brick in English garden wall
bond; approximately 3 metres high and raked up against the house. Pantile
coping to flat section of wall and stone coping to raked-up section.

Listing NGR: SE7423784674

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26602037

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