Description

STOKE ST MILBOROUGH

SO58SE CLEEDOWNTON
482-1/3/190 East Farmhouse
15/03/74

II

Farmhouse. Early C17 with C19 additions. Coursed stone rubble,
brick, painted timber-frame with brick infill. Plain-tile
roofs. Central ridge stack with star-shaped brick shafts and
C19 cap, integral stone gable-end stack with upper brick
shaft, integral brick chimney at cross wing eaves.
Cross-shaped plan of 3-bay main range and opposing cross
wings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Front with 2-window range to right,
projecting cross wing gable masking main range to centre left,
square framing with high tension brace to extreme left.
2-window range of restored timber 2-mullion and transom
windows with C19 metal lights, with ground-floor window to
right blocked and with C19 2-light casement inserted. Central
plain boarded entrance door with restored double-ovolo-moulded
frame. Plain hoodmoulds over openings. Cross wing gable at
ground floor has restored ovolo-chamfered 3-mullion and
transom window with metal multi-pane casements and brick
segmental arch. Return wall to right is rebuilt brick with
first-floor 2-light cross casement, left return side covered
by tiled outshut with plain boarded door. Left return has
gable head rebuilt in brick. 2-light casement at first floor
and C20 casement at ground floor. Right gable-end return is
masked at ground level by tile-roofed outshut.
Rear: 2-window range to left, projecting C19 cross wing gable
masking main range to centre right, mid C19 rebuilt brick wall
to right containing vestiges of timber-frame and C20
ground-floor casement. 2-window range has ground-floor timber
mullion and transom windows with plain stone hoodmoulds and
metal multi-pane casements, flanking plain doorway with C20
hipped tile-roofed porch. One similar first-floor window
flanked by blocked former dovecote holes and ledges. Cross
wing gable has C20 casements to all 3 sides with flat stone
lintel at first floor and brick segmental arch to ground
floor.
INTERIOR: chamfered bridging beams, with beaded ovolo moulding
in central bay with unusual ogee-profiled ovolo chamfer-stops.
West bay has plain chamfered bridging beam with ogee
stop-chamfer.

Listing NGR: SO5812980753

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663611

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