Winestead Farmhouse

SUNK ISLAND BRICK ROAD TA 22 SE (north side, off) 6/77 Winestead Farmhouse GV II

Farmhouse. 1856 by S S Teulon for the Crown Commissioners. North wing removed in C20. Red-brown brick in Flemish bond with black and orange brick dressings. Welsh slate roof. Irregular plan. 2 storeys. West entrance front: 3 first-floor windows; asymmetrical. Projecting gabled section to right with lower and narrower full-height gabled porch adjoining on left, gabled section set back to left. Chamfered plinth. Porch section: flush buttress with tumbled-in brick to offsets; 2 steps to board door with strap hinges in segmental-headed chamfered reveal beneath open timber porch with chamfered square piers carrying gabled roof with segmental-pointed arch- brace; narrow 8-pane sash to right. Recessed panel at first-floor level in chamfered segmental-pointed reveal, with polygonal relief panel bearing crown, royal cypher and date. 12-pane first-floor sash and black brick decoration to gable. Section to right: single 12-pane ground- and first- floor sashes, black brick diaper decoration. Stepped eaves, tumbled-in brick and black brick ornament to gables. Left return of porch has small ground-floor and large first-floor 12-pane sashes. Section set back to left has single 12-pane sashes to each floor, stepped eaves and tumbled-in brick to gable, half-hipped roof. Right return forms south front: 2 first-floor windows. Projecting gabled section to right has single 12-pane sashes to each floor, black brick cross motifs, and decorative flush brick round panel to gable. Single-storey section adjoining to left has chamfered left corner, corbelled-out above, 16-pane sash beneath segmental arch, roof hipped to left. Section set back to left has 12-pane first-floor sash beneath gable. Similar gable details to west front. Large brick ridge stack. East front: similar 12-pane sashes with segmental and pointed relieving arches, pair of first-floor sashes beneath raised eaves, half- hipped roof to projecting wing, board door to single-storey wing to right. Most windows have sills, segmental orange brick arches and pointed relieving arches above flush panels with herringbone brick infill. Interior contains staircase with closed string, moulded handrail, chamfered newel post and Gothick-style splat balusters with pierced hexagons; panelled doors in architraves. One of a series of mid C19 Crown estate buildings by Teulon. See item 6/76 for sources.

Listing NGR: TA2778520598