Fallowfield House And Outbuilding To West

Fallowfield House is a house dating from the 17th century, with significant alterations in the mid-18th century and further changes in 1928. It is constructed of coursed rubble, with stone dressings; the roof is covered in Welsh slate, with stone slates on a smaller outbuilding, and features white brick stacks. The south front is three storeys high and has an irregular four-bay arrangement. A flight of three stone steps leads to a glazed front door in the second bay. The lower floors have tripartite sash windows, except for a 12-pane sash above the door and another on the second floor. The upper floor windows are 12-pane sashes and have been renewed. All lower-floor window openings have raised stone surrounds, while the second-floor windows sit within flush stone surrounds. The gables are coped and have moulded kneelers, with end and ridge stacks rebuilt on older bases.

A single-storey, two-bay outbuilding is attached to the right, featuring a boarded door within a moulded stone surround with cusped panels in the spandrels of a flattened triangular head; a chamfered three-light mullioned window; and a margined sash window. A rebuilt ridge stack is also present. The left return side of the house shows a projecting stepped stack flanked by 12-pane sashes on the second floor, and an oval attic light cut into the stone. The right return side and rear of the house display two- and three-light mullioned windows, some with hood moulds, including a three-light transomed stair window, some of which may have been re-set. A rear wing, featuring 12-pane sashes, connects to a former outbuilding dating from around 1800, which has two boarded doors with alternating-block surrounds.

Inside, the western ground floor room has a large four-centred arched fireplace with contemporary foliate plaster bosses at the rear, reminiscent of Ovingham Old Vicarage. The eastern ground floor room retains two fireplaces with moulded lintels supported by corbels and good 17th-century panelling; a doorway to the staircase has a four-centred arch with a hoodmould. The open-well staircase has a closed string, barley-sugar balusters, and a moulded ramped handrail. The newel posts consist of groups of four balusters. Panelling and parts of the staircase are reputedly from Dilston Hall, brought in during the mid-18th century. There is another four-centred doorway on the first floor. The roof structure has principal-rafter collared trusses with carpenters’ marks.

The interior of the outbuilding, believed to have been a chapel, includes an arched recess (now a lavatory) which is thought to be a piscina. At the west end is an 18th-century fireplace with a shouldered lintel, a domed recess for a set pot, and a circular cast iron oven door.