Foulds House Farmhouse

SD 73 NE SIMONSTONE (off) SABDEN ROAD North Town

1/57 Foulds House Farmhouse 1.4.1953 GV II

Farmhouse, dated 1677 on porch. Coursed sandstone blocks and rubble with quoins, stone slate roof with moulded coping and kneelers at left gable, large external chimney stack at the same gable and gable chimney at right end. Two bays (2nd bay possibly a later addition), with projecting porch in centre, short rear extension to 2nd bay incorporating staircase. Two storeys; 2-storey porch with kneelers has wide chamfered doorway (the lintel undercut on the inner side to make a shallow Tudor arch), a 2-light double-chamfered window with hoodmould at 1st floor and beneath this a recessed datestone with moulded surround and raised lettering "HW:IW ; to the left the 1st bay has a AN:1677" similar window on each floor, divided respectively by king mullions into 3 + 3 and 4 + 2 lights. Gable end of this part has large external chimney with offsets, to the rear of this a square recessed 2-light window lacking the mullion and above a round-headed light lengthened downwards. The bay to the right of the porch appears to have been added or altered, is built of less regular masonry, has 3 inserted windows, and in the angle with the porch a doorway incorporating old jambstones and a lintel with crude dog-toothing pattern incised. Interior: 1st bay has beams with cyma-stopped small chamfer, supported on stone corbels; large stone arched fireplace now concealed.

Listing NGR: SD7916436099