Ermine Farmhouse

SE 9414-9514 APPLEBY ERMINE STREET (west side)

16/14 Nos 39, 41 and 43 (Ermine Farmhouse) 6.11.67 (formerly listed as Ermine Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse, now 3 houses. Late C18 - early C19 with later alterations and rear extensions. Coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings, right gable-end and stacks; later C19 rear extension in squared ironstone with brick dressings. Pantile roof. Wrought-iron porch with lead roof. T- shaped on plan: 4-room front incorporating 2-room central entrance-hall section to left with single-room rear wing extended in later C19 (No 39); later outshuts to rear right contain entrances to Nos 41 and 43. 2 storeys, 6 first-floor windows. Plinth, quoins. C19 open trellised porch with round-arched entrance flanked by ornate panels beneath swept hood with valance. 6-fielded-panel door beneath plain overlight flanked by single 16-pane flush sashes with segmental header brick arches and projecting sills. To right: two 12-pane sashes with similar arches and sills, and single inserted 8-pane sash. First floor: 3 unequal 12-pane sashes to left, with 2 unequal 9-pane sashes and one unequal 6-pane sash to right. Stepped eaves. Brick coped and tumbled gables. C19 rebuilt axial stack and end- stacks, that to left with cogged brick cornice. Interior: open-well staircase with closed string, plain newels and turned balusters (balustrade boxed-in at time of resurvey); ground floor left room has ribbed plaster cornice with lion's head ornament.

Listing NGR: SE9490614925