Channel Farmhouse

SUNK ISLAND CHANNEL ROAD TA 21 NE (east side) 10/78 Channel Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. 1857 by S S Teulon for the Crown Commissioners; C20 alterations, including partial rebuilding of north range. Red-brown brick in Flemish bond with orange brick dressings. Concrete tile roof. Approximately L- shaped on plan: double-depth main range with projecting wing to 2-room principal south garden front, entrance porch to west front. 2 storeys. Chamfered plinth. South front: 4 first-floor windows. Projecting gabled wing to left has ground-floor brick canted bay window with 12-pane sash to front and 8-pane sashes to sides beneath segmental arches; pair of 12-pane sashes to right beneath segmental pointed arches. Similar slightly smaller first-floor windows. All windows with orange rubbed-brick arches. Stepped eaves and tumbled-in brick to gable with central decorative flush brick round panel in yellow surround. Half-hipped roof to right. Partly- projecting end stacks with rubbed-in brick to offsets, rebuilt top sections. Left return, forming west entrance front, has projecting section to left with narrower gabled full-height porch adjoining to right. Porch: flush buttress with tumbled-in brick to offset, chamfered segmental-pointed entrance with C20 half-glazed door beneath plain overlight; segmental-arched panel above containing painted relief tablet with crown, royal cypher and date, small single-light segmental-headed first-floor window, tumbled-in brick and stepped eaves to gable. Section to left has pair of 16-pane ground-floor windows and similar single first-floor window beneath segmental arches, C20 low-pitched hipped roof. One of a series of mid C19 Crown estate buildings by Teulon. See item 6/76 for sources.

Listing NGR: TA2934119140