Old Downton Farmhouse

DOWNTON CP DOWNTON ON THE ROCK SO 47 SW 3/23 Old Downton Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. C17 with mid-C19 and circa 1930 alterations and additions. Part timber-framed with brick infill on rubble base, part brick, roughcast, hipped slate roof with brick ridge stacks. L-plan with wings extending to north and west and large external rubble chimney with tiled offsets and brick stack on east side; main south elevation was refronted circa 1930. Two storeys, basement and attic with half-dormers. Framing: visible at rear of building. Four rows of panels from sill to wall-plate with long straight braces across lower corners. Main south front: three bays; left bay projects slightly and there is a pilaster buttress between the central and right bay. There is a basement 3-light casement in the right bay, a bay window with a lean-to roof and a 12-pane sash window on the ground floor, a 6-pane sash, a 3-light and a 2-light casement on the first floor and a central gabled half-dormer with a 2-light casement. Central entrance has a moulded flat canopy on brackets and a half-glazed door. A C19 wing adjoins the west side of the north wing at the rear. Interior has one room lined with Cl7 panelling and one room lined with early C18 panelling. Also the Cl7 staircase is recorded to have survived and has moulded strings and square newels; the balusters have been removed. (RCHM, Herefs, Vol III, p 45);

Listing NGR: SO4267273370