Home Farmhouse, With Dairy And Tea Room Attached

WHITTINGTON SD 57 NE

1/198 Home Farmhouse, with dairy and tea room attached

GV II

House, c.1700, restored 1885 when a tea room and dairy were added on the north-west side by Paley and Austin. 2 storeys. Windows rebated and hollow chamfered, of 2 lights, with cyma-moulded hoods treated as open pediments. At the left and right sides of the facade there are 2 adjacent windows on each floor. Towards the centre there is a single window on each floor. To the right of this bay is the door, which appears to be of walnut, with applied mouldings, in a stone doorcase with crude pilasters and a projecting hood on brackets. Gable chimneys. At the left is the single-storey tea room, with timber and plaster facings on a stone base. The main roof continues the direction of the house roof at a lower level and ends with a bay window with a gable over. In the angle between this and the gable wall of the house is a projection with hipped roof, with 2 adjacent timber windows facing forwards. The windows have elaborate leading and some stained glass panels. Adjoining at the rear is the octagonal stone dairy whose roof continues downwards over a continuous verandah supported on timber posts and is surmounted by a lantern with weather vane. On 3 sides the dairy has 6-light mullioned and transomed windows. Inside, the tea room has oak panelling, and a fireplace surround inscribed: 'DG [Dawson Greene] 1885'. The dairy has marble shelves supported on marble baluster columns, panels of coloured tiles depicting the four seasons, and a ribbed timber roof with pendant bosses around the lantern.

Listing NGR: SD5988376248