Eastfield Farmhouse And Adjoining Stable/Granary

SE 91 NW WINTERTON ERMINE STREET (west side) 5/80 Eastfield Farmhouse and adjoining stable/ granary

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Farmhouse and adjoining stable/granary. Farmhouse 1770-72 for John, Earl Mexborough, with C19 raising of rear wing, and mid Cl9 stable/granary range to south. House of banded squared limestone with brick dressings and chimneys; brick to raised section of rear wing. Stable/granary has west courtyard front of squared limestone with brick dressings, and brick to east side. Pantile roofs throughout. House is T-shaped on plan, with a two-room central entrance- hall east front and a two-room kitchen wing to the rear incorporating a stable at the west end and a dairy outshut on the north side; adjoining stable/granary range contains a single stall flanked by a tack room on the south side and a through passage on the other side, beside the house. House: 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Stable/granary: single storey with windowless attic, 3 bays to courtyard side. House: quoins, 4-panel door beneath narrow overlight in plain wood frame beneath segmental header arch, Long windows to ground floor, shorter windows to first floor, with narrower window to central bay; all windows with C19 4-pane sashes in original frames and openings with stone sills beneath segmental header arches, Plain wooden eaves board. Corniced end stacks. Stable/granary to left has single pointed-arch doorway to passage beside house, a row of pipe breathers above left, and a single-flue axial stack. Rear wing of house has 4 first-floor windows to courtyard front: 2 doors and 2 ground-floor windows with glazing bars beneath segmental arches to kitchen section on right; pair of basket-arched doorways to passage and stable to left with quoined brick surrounds and board doors with strap hinges; first floor has windows beneath timber lintels, one with a 4-pane sliding sash, the others with later glazing in original openings. Stable/granary, courtyard front, has 3 pointed-arch doorways with rounded brick jambs incorporating ashlar hinge mounting blacks, and original board doors with strap hinges; small 2-pane window to central stable, 2 rows of pipe breathers above. Interior: original details in house include open well staircase with plain balusters and corniced handrail; panelled shutters, reveals and window seats to east front; spine beam to ground-floor left room, exposed joists to kitchen, panelled doors throughout. Stables contain original floors and fittings. A good and largely unaltered example of a stone-built 'patternbook' enclosure farmhouse, and one of only three listed examples of such buildings outside a village in the open limestone landscape of South Humberside. Adjoining ranges of farmbuildings are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SE9414419737