Mitnell Farmhouse

RICHARDS CASTLE

SO47SE MITNELL LANE, Mitnell 482-1/8/163 (North West side) Mitnell Farmhouse

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Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1674 with C20 extensions. Stone rubble with plain clay tiles. Stone projecting end stacks with brick shafts and brick ridge stack. EXTERIOR: south front to garden is a 4-window range consisting of two 3-light casements flanking a reset 2-light casement with an additional C20 3-light casement in the C20 extension to left. At ground-floor level the central C17 bay has a 4-panelled door under a C20 projecting tiled gabled open porch. Right-hand gable end: 2 C17 chamfered oak-framed cellar openings with inserted mullions. C20 casements to ground and attic floors. Rear (north): 2 C17 oak chamfered mullioned windows of 2-lights with the same to left at ground level. Former central doorway infilled with 3-light casement set on stone with ogee-stop-chamfered lintel surviving. C20 single-storey extension to right with entrance door. INTERIOR: ogee-chamfer-stopped bridging beam and mantle-beam in east bay. Full-height square-panelled cross-frame between east and central bays. Central bays with chamfered bridging beams with morticed soffits. Ogee-chamfer-stopped mantlebeam with inscribed initials and date. First-floor west bay has ogee-chamfer-stopped mantle-beam with diamond inscription. Single trenched-purlin roof with 2 twin-raking-strut trusses. Inscription on mantle beam: 'RS' over '1674' set in an incised border and flanked by 'T' and 'B': Reputed to be Richard Salwey (Lord of Manor) and Thomas Bezand (tenant).

Listing NGR: SO4996370164