Gate End Farmhouse

SE 9222 - 9322 WINTERINGHAM LOW BURGAGE (east side) 8/34 Gate End Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. C16 or earlier with C18 rear wing and later alterations, including early C20 rendering and re-roofing. Main range is timber-framed, with ground floor cased in roughly-squared limestone and first floor in brick, with brick gables and stacks; colourwashed gable-end and rear, rough- rendered first floor front. Rear wing in colourwashed coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings and stack. Slate roof to main range, with pantiles to hipped gable and rear wing. L-shaped on plan: main range with 5 bays of timber frame has 4 rooms with entrance/stair hall to left of centre and single-room rear wing with outshut. 2 storeys, irregular fenestration. Stone quoins to ground floor left; first floor has brick quoins to left and wooden board to right angle. 4 stone steps to recessed plank door in wooden architrave under concrete lintel. Small datestone to right inscribed IW. 1739 Single 16-pane sliding sash to left, 3-light sliding sash with glazing bars and 16-pane sliding sash to right. Plain wooden board at first floor level with rendering above. Three 12-pane first floor sliding sashes with lintels at eaves level. All windows c1975 replacements. Steeply-pitched roof, hipped to left. 3 axial stacks. Right return, facing Silver Street, has ground floor sliding sash under segmental brick arch, a C17-18 brick upper section with 3-course dentilled brick bands at first floor and eaves level, and C19 decorative barge boards. C19 double-course dentilled brick first floor band to rear wing. Interior. Spine beams in 2 ground floor right rooms are supported on a timber post with broach-stopped chamfers and roll moulding; timber posts, tie beams and wall plates exposed on first floor. Central truss has one surviving arch brace. Roof of 8 or 9 bays, truncated by hip and partly rebuilt, has clasped purlins and raking struts from tie beams to arched collars. Surviving timber framing suggests a late medieval open hall flanked by single rooms with chambers above, with a floor inserted in the hall in C16-17. In 1719 the farmhouse, shown on a contemporary plan as L-shaped, was occupied by Thomas Westoby. An unusual and important example of a type of building rare to this area. D Neave, Winteringham 1650-1760, 1984, 54-5.

Listing NGR: SE9320022192