South Farmhouse

SUNK ISLAND SOUTH FARM ROAD TA 21 NE (south end) 10/84 South Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. Early C19 with alterations of 1856 by S S Teulon, including entrance porch and bay windows to south front. For the Crown Commissioners. Red-brown brick with Welsh slate roof. Double-depth plan with 2-room, central entrance-hall south front. 2 storeys, 3 bays, symmetrical. Chamfered plinth to porch and bay windows. Projecting full-height enclosed porch has chamfered corners, corbelled-out at mid first-floor level, steps to recessed half-glazed door beneath plain fanlight and painted rubbed- brick round arch with 2-course brick impost band; recessed panel above in chamfered segmental-pointed arch reveal with lozenge-shaped relief panel bearing crown, royal cypher and date; first-floor 8-pane window with keyed wedge lintel, ashlar sill supported on brick corbels, and single-course brick sill band; stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice, hipped roof. Ground-floor has canted brick bay window to left with 12-pane sash to front and 8-pane sashes to sides, and brick bay window adjoining porch to right with pair of 16-pane sashes; windows all beneath cambered wedge lintels and both bays with hipped roofs. Side bays have 16-pane first-floor sashes with sills and channelled and keyed stucco cambered arches. Hipped roof. End stacks. Interior contains original open well staircase with swept handrail, column newels and ribbed stick balusters. One of a series of early C19 Crown estate buildings, altered as part of Teulon's extensive work in the mid C19. See item 6/76 for sources.

Listing NGR: TA2559717460