Preston Field Farmhouse And Cottage Adjoining To East

PRESTON WYTON ROAD TA 13 SE (east side, off)

1/20 Preston Field Farmhouse and cottage adjoining to east

• II Farmhouse and adjoining cottage. Mid C18 main range with early C20 bay windows; early C18 cottage. Brick with pantile roofs. L-shaped on plan: double-depth main range with 2-room, central entrance-hall south front, and adjoining 2 or 3-room cottage forming projecting gabled wing to front right with entrance to rear (east), facing foldyard. Main range: 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays; symmetrical. 6-fielded-panel door and overlight with margin lights in architrave beneath channelled stucco flat arch, flanked by ground- floor brick canted bay windows with plate-glass sashes, hipped roofs. Central first-floor 12-pane sash flanked by 16-pane sashes, all in flush wooden architraves with sills and stucco flat arches. 3-course stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Brick-coped gables. Pair of corniced ridge stacks with rebuilt upper sections. Left return: window with glazing bars (incorporating a central arched light) to ground floor left; French windows with glazing bars to right, 16-pane first-floor sashes, all in similar surrounds to front sashes. 3-course dentilled brick band at eaves level. C19 inserted round-headed attic sash with glazing bars beneath rubbed-brick arch, flanked by a pair of blocked original openings. Adjoining 3-room cottage: 2-storey, 2-bay range with lower 2-storey, single-bay kitchen section to south. East side: main section has board door with 8-pane window to left, first-floor 12-pane sliding sash with narrow slit window to left; lower section to left has 8-pane ground-floor window, 6-pane first-floor window; stepped eaves, tumbled-in brick to raised gables, end stacks. West side has 12-pane sliding sash to main section. Interior. Main house contains mid C19 open well staircase with carved newel, turned balusters, marble chimney-pieces. Cottage contains exposed ceiling joists.

Listing NGR: TA1773332225