Stockingate Farmhouse

SOUTH KIRBY STOCKINGATE SE41SE (south side) 6/79 Stockingate Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse, now house. Early to mid C18; enlarged and altered. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, slate roof. L-shaped plan forded by single depth 2-unit front range with outshut added to rear of 2nd unit at an early date. Three storeys and 2 bays, symmetrical; central doorway with plain surround, flanked by modern French windows; square windows at 1st floor, that on the right a horizontal-sliding sash with glazing bars, the other altered; low rectangular windows at 2nd floor, both 3-light horizontal-sliding sashes with rendered surrounds (perhaps formerly mullioned); gable copings with kneelers; gable chimneys, that on the left external. Right-hand return wall has altered or inserted windows. Full-height outshut has blocked doorway in rear wall; recent addition in re-entrant angle. Interior: chamfered spine beams and joists in both rooms at ground and 1st floors; large rectangular stone fireplace in housebody to right, and in outshut to rear of this; central staircase rising in one flight from front to rear on both levels; in chamber to left, a small rectangular fireplace with iron grate flanked by cheeks and hobs of stone (an unusual survival); in each attic a large collar rafter roof truss, pegged. (Item closely resembles Kirby cannon Farmhouse, Common Road, and Arden Farmhouse, Mill Lane (q.v.)).

Listing NGR: SE4501910593