College Farmhouse

TA 20 NW LACEBY COOPER LANE (north side)

2/40 College Farmhouse (formerly listed as 10.7.75 41 High Street)

• II

Farmhouse, now house. Probable C16 origins, encased in late C17, with C18 and C19 alterations and additions to rear. Renovations of 1980. Timber frame, underbuilt and encased in brick (in English bond to earlier section). Pantile roof. L-shaped on plan: 2-room central entrance hall front with 2- room wing to rear left. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Round-headed entrance with keyed architrave and 6-fielded-panel door and blind fanlight in fielded-panel arched reveal. 16-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves. 2-course brick first floor band. Similar first floor sashes with smaller central 16-pane sash. All sashes are C20 replacements. Traces of earlier blocked openings to both floors. Corbelled brick eaves cornice. Brick coped and tumbled gables. End stacks. 16-pane sliding sashes to left return. Interior. Exposed timber framing includes central tie beams to both floors, post with braces to first floor left, partitions with brick and plaster infill to stairhall. Late C17 - early C18 features include: open well staircase with closed string, bulb-on-vase balusters, plain newel with ornate scrolled bracket; segmental-arched brick fireplaces to ground floor, wooden bolection chimneypieces with moulded cornice mantlepieces to first floor front rooms; 2-fielded-panel doors and cupboard doors with L-hinges; 2-light wooden mullioned window with leaded panes re-set in rear passage. Ground floor right has early C19 beaded-panel doors, window shutters and plaster cornice. In 1714 Philip and Sarah Stanford left the property in trust to support a school, hence the various earlier names, College, School or Paupers Farm.

Listing NGR: TA2138406694