East Farmhouse

STOKE ST MILBOROUGH

SO58SE CLEEDOWNTON 482-1/3/190 East Farmhouse 15/03/74

II

Farmhouse. Early C17 with C19 additions. Coursed stone rubble, brick, painted timber-frame with brick infill. Plain-tile roofs. Central ridge stack with star-shaped brick shafts and C19 cap, integral stone gable-end stack with upper brick shaft, integral brick chimney at cross wing eaves. Cross-shaped plan of 3-bay main range and opposing cross wings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Front with 2-window range to right, projecting cross wing gable masking main range to centre left, square framing with high tension brace to extreme left. 2-window range of restored timber 2-mullion and transom windows with C19 metal lights, with ground-floor window to right blocked and with C19 2-light casement inserted. Central plain boarded entrance door with restored double-ovolo-moulded frame. Plain hoodmoulds over openings. Cross wing gable at ground floor has restored ovolo-chamfered 3-mullion and transom window with metal multi-pane casements and brick segmental arch. Return wall to right is rebuilt brick with first-floor 2-light cross casement, left return side covered by tiled outshut with plain boarded door. Left return has gable head rebuilt in brick. 2-light casement at first floor and C20 casement at ground floor. Right gable-end return is masked at ground level by tile-roofed outshut. Rear: 2-window range to left, projecting C19 cross wing gable masking main range to centre right, mid C19 rebuilt brick wall to right containing vestiges of timber-frame and C20 ground-floor casement. 2-window range has ground-floor timber mullion and transom windows with plain stone hoodmoulds and metal multi-pane casements, flanking plain doorway with C20 hipped tile-roofed porch. One similar first-floor window flanked by blocked former dovecote holes and ledges. Cross wing gable has C20 casements to all 3 sides with flat stone lintel at first floor and brick segmental arch to ground floor. INTERIOR: chamfered bridging beams, with beaded ovolo moulding in central bay with unusual ogee-profiled ovolo chamfer-stops. West bay has plain chamfered bridging beam with ogee stop-chamfer.

Listing NGR: SO5812980753