Eastfield Farmhouse and Adjoining Stable/Granary

Eastfield Farmhouse and adjoining stable/granary is a farmhouse dating to 1770-72, built for John, Earl Mexborough. A rear wing was raised in the 19th century, and a stable/granary range was added around the middle of the 19th century. The farmhouse is constructed of banded squared limestone with brick dressings and chimneys, while the raised section of the rear wing is brick. The stable/granary range has a limestone west courtyard front with brick dressings, and brick to the east side. All buildings have pantile roofs.

The farmhouse is T-shaped, with a two-room central entrance hall facing east and a two-room kitchen wing to the rear. The kitchen wing incorporates a stable at the west end and a dairy outshut on the north side. Adjoining the house is a stable/granary range containing a single stall, flanked by a tack room on the south side and a through passage on the other side.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and three bays wide, with a symmetrical front. It has quoins, a four-panel door beneath a narrow overlight in a plain wood frame within a segmental header arch, and long and shorter windows, all fitted with 19th-century four-pane sashes in original frames and stone sills beneath segmental header arches. There is a plain wooden eaves board, and corniced end stacks. The stable/granary has a single pointed-arch doorway to the passage beside the house, a row of pipe breathers above, and a single-flue axial stack.

The rear wing has four first-floor windows to the courtyard front and pairs of doors and ground-floor windows with glazing bars beneath segmental arches to the kitchen section. To the left are basket-arched doorways to the passage and stable, with quoined brick surrounds and board doors with strap hinges. First-floor windows have timber lintels, one with a four-pane sliding sash, while the others have later glazing in original openings. The courtyard front of the stable/granary features three pointed-arch doorways with rounded brick jambs incorporating ashlar hinge mounting blocks, original board doors with strap hinges, and a small two-pane window to the central stable. There are also two rows of pipe breathers above.

Inside the house, original features include an open well staircase with plain balusters and a corniced handrail, panelled shutters, reveals, and window seats to the east front, a spine beam to the ground-floor room on the left, exposed joists to the kitchen, and panelled doors throughout. The stable retains original floors and fittings.

The building is a good and largely unaltered example of a stone-built ‘pattern book’ enclosure farmhouse, notable as one of only three listed examples outside of a village in the open limestone landscape of South Humberside. Adjoining ranges of farm buildings are not of special architectural interest.