Bockleton Court

STOKE ST MILBOROUGH

SO58SE Bockleton Court 482-1/3/180 15/03/74

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C16 timber-framed core with C18 alterations. Rubble stone, with painted timber-frame on stone rubble plinth with painted rendered infill panels to rear and side. Plain-tile roofs with C19 ornamental bargeboards to front and sides. Projecting stone gable-end and eaves stacks, and integral ridge and eaves stacks, with diagonally-set double brick shafts, and central stack with star-shaped double brick shafts. PLAN: L-shaped with main range with projecting gables, and rear wing. EXTERIOR: 2-storey and attic, with cellar to rear wing. South front is 5-window range with advanced gabled bays forming bays 2 and 4. Right-hand bay has attic gable raised through eaves. 3-light casements to first floor, 2-light at attic, with 2- and 3-mullion and transom windows at ground floor, with restored leaded lights throughout. Advanced bay to right has chamfered segmental-arched opening to integral porch: double ovolo- and fillet-moulded door frame with run-out stops, boarded oak door with nail studs and heavy iron strap hinges, side benches incorporating C16-style panelling. Left-hand return gable end: central stone stack with first-floor hoodmould and ashlar coped offsets. To left is timber-frame underbuilt in stone with first-floor moulded bressumer, girding beam, jowled post, straight brace, middle rails, studs, attic-level jettied tie beam with vertical studs. Rear: 2 bays of close-studded timber-frame to right; jetty to gable end visible to right, jetty brace, girding beam, former window sill and head, high sill plate on stone rubble plinth partly rebuilt in brick. To centre is stone gabled wall rising above adjacent eaves line with 2-light casement to right and projecting stone stack to left. Rear range masked at centre by tiled roofed stone outshuts. To centre is advanced stone bay with attic gable as front, with ovolo-moulded oak mullion window with leaded lights at first floor and attic 2-light casement with leaded lights. Projecting rear wing covers left side. Rear wing west side: 2-storey 2-window range with 2-light casements at first floor, the left window only is leaded. To ground-floor left is chamfered 2-mullion window partly leaded, to right is beaded boarded door in plain oak door frame. Cellar entrance boarded door to left. Rear wing gable covered by single-storey tiled roofed extension to left, oak framed cellar window to right with 3 barred lights between oak mullions. Main range right return gable and rear wing east side: main range gable with 3-light casement at first floor, 2-light casement in attic gable, 8/8 sash at ground floor and masked to left by projecting tiled gabled storage extension. Rear wing with 2-light casement to left at first floor and C20 casement under with plain boarded door with oak door frame. INTERIOR: exposed ceiling beams and timber framing in sitting room and kitchen.

Listing NGR: SO5781183235