East Hartford Farmhouse With Adjacent Outbuilding To East

CRAMLINGTON EAST HARTFORD NZ 27 NE 4/67 East Hartford Farmhouse, with adjacent outbuilding to east II House, mid C17 with C18 outshut;restored, porch added and outshut heightened in mid-C19; outbuilding probably C18. Rubble with roughly-shaped quoins and cut dressings; Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys + attics, 2 bays. Central gabled porch with re-set 2-light mullioned window under straight hoodmould; and vertical- panelled door on right return. Above porch oval window with radial glazing, in moulded surround. Flanking bays have 3-light mullioned windows, mostly with small-paned casements, on ground and 1st floors and 2-light attic windows in gabled dormers, all under straight hoodmoulds. Porch, end gables and dormers all coped on moulded kneelers; stepped-and-corniced end stacks. Left return shows blocked chamfered windows to ground and first floors, and 12-pane Yorkshire sash on 1st floor of outshut. Right return shows blocked chamfered window above outbuilding roof. Outbuilding shows raised reverse-stepped gable coping to right and attached pent privy with boarded door and small window on far right. Rear elevation of house has boarded door; 16- and 12-pane Yorkshire sashes.

Interior: Original front doorway within porch, a flat-pointed arch in moulded frame, under straight hoodmould. Similar arch to parlour fireplace.

Unusual Northumberland example of a Jacobean farmhouse; cut dressings largely renewed in the C19 but probably correctly, except that the 3-light windows may have been heightened.

Listing NGR: NZ2641479720