Lambcote Grange Farmhouse

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SK59SW 8/51

STAINTON FISH POND LANE (north side) Lambcote Grange Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Dated 1747 for G. Purslove; earlier wing to rear of late C16 -early C17 date; C20 alterations. Ashlar magnesian limestone, C20 cement-tile roof; wing,to rear pebble-dashed and with Welsh slate roof. Three storeys five x two bays with wing to rear centre continued by earlier two-storey wing. Front: plinth, rusticated quoins. Central French window in architrave with monogram in roundel beneath consoled segmental pediment; flanking bays have plain sashes with projecting stone sills and architraves.

First floor: deep band; sill band links windows as below, the central sash has eared architrave with shell motif set in a corniced ashlar panel. Shorter second-floor windows in matching surrounds, the central window with ashlar apron and moulded sill. Eaves cornice breaks forward over ends and centre; hipped roof. Right return: blind, flat-arched window openings to each floor except that to ground-floor bay one having inserted doorway. Second-floor openings are linked by sill band and flank a deeply-carved rectangular plaque with initials and date 'G.P.1747'. Earlier wing on right has original doorway with quoined surround and deep lintel with arched soffit; C20 casements, ridge stack and hipped end to roof.

Interior: at foot of main staircase is an architraved display cupboard with three shaped shelves in a concave recess; doorcase nearby with keyed archivolt; staircase itself has turned balusters and ramped handrails; dog-leg service staircase with simpler, turned balusters. Stop-chamfered transverse ceiling beam in ground floor of rear wing.

On the site of a grange of Roche Abbey confiscated by Henry VIII and given to John Broxholme of Conisborough; sold to M. Purslove of Firsby in 1690 whose family built the front range and farm buildings to rear (indenture in ownership of occupier at time of resurvey (1987)).

Listing NGR: SK5370993637