Hummersea Farmhouse

LOFTUS HUMMERSEA LANE NZ 71 NW (east side), Loftus. 1/40 Hummersea Farmhouse. 10.11.83 G.V. II Farmhouse,C17, possibly earlier, with mid C18 left extension; extensively altered c.1800 when left-hand part and extension raised by 4 courses and right-hand part lowered to form part of adjoining c.1800 farm cottage. Now all one house. Dressed sandstone; clay pantile roofs with stone ridge and gable copings. Stacks on cottage rebuilt in brick. 2 storeys, farmhouse 5 windows. Early C19 six-panel door, and overlight with glazing bars, between 2nd and 3rd windows. Right end window now holds French doors. Late C19 half-glazed door at left end. Early C20 fixed-light window and casement on ground floor of left extension. Other windows horizontal sashes with glazing bars and painted sills. Keyed lintel over 3rd ground-floor window. Metal restraining plates at ceiling levels between 4th and 5th windows. Farm cottage 2 windows; blocked doorway at left end, central 4-panel door. Sash windows with glazing bars. Ridge and end stacks. Sash windows in right return. Rear of farmhouse shows chamfered mullioned window on ground floor. Interiors have beamed ceilings and panelled sliding window shutters on first floor. Cottage adjoining rear of farm cottage, and farm outbuildings to west and north-west, are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ7232719718