Home Farmhouse Skipwith House

SE 7604-7704 EPWORTH STATION ROAD (south-west side)

19/94 No 31 (Skipwith House) and No 35 (Home Farmhouse)

GV II

House, now 2 dwellings. Mid C18 with later C18 - early C19 addition to south; C19 - C20 subdivision and unsympathetic C20 alterations to west front. Yellow-brown brick in Flemish bond with scored pointing to east front (Skipwith House); cement rendered to north gable end and west front (Home Farmhouse). Pantile roof to east front; concrete tiles to west front. Double-depth plan, with 2-room, central entrance-hall east and west fronts, with double-depth single-room addition to south. East front: 2 storeys, 5 bays; symmetrical, with lower 2-storey, 2-bay addition set back to left. Late C19 - early C20 flat-roofed trellised wooden porch over original C18 door with inserted C19 glazing over 2 fielded-panels, beneath 3-pane overlight. 12-pane sashes, in flush wooden architraves, with sills beneath stucco flat arches, most windows C20 replacements. 3-course brick first- floor band with upper course projecting, mutilated to far right (position of former addition). Stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice. Double-span roof with stone-coped gables and shaped kneelers. Corniced end stacks. Left addition has twin full-height basket-arched panels with single similar sashes to ground and first floors, stone-coped gable with shaped kneelers. West front has C20 doors and windows, similar brick eaves cornice, gable details and end stacks. Interior of Skipwith House has original open-well staircase with ramped and wreathed corniced handrail, column-on-vase balusters and newel posts with round knops, profiled cheek-pieces; round- headed alcove cupboard to ground floor left with beaded-panel doors in reeded architrave; fielded-panel shutters and 6-fielded-panel doors in architraves throughout, some with L and H hinges. Interior of Home Farmhouse altered in C20. Adjoining ranges to south are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SE7747904442