Plowsters

ASHFORD CARBONELL

SO5270 Plowsters 482-1/15/51 15/03/74

GV II

House. Late C16 and C17, remodelled late C18. Painted brick with timber-framed rear gable. Plain brick storey band with indented bands at attic gables. Slate roof with C19 ornamental serrated bargeboards and fascia to front. Central brick ridge stack, projecting stepped brick eaves chimney stacks at each wing. U-shaped plan of main range with 2 projecting wings. EXTERIOR: 2-storey, attic and cellar. Front is 4-window range with outer windows set in projecting gabled wings each side. C18 wood mullioned windows with stone sills and restored leaded lights: large 2-mullion and transom window in each storey of wings, with metal multi-pane window replacement to ground floor wing to left. Central 2-window range of single-mullion windows with 2-mullion window at ground level to right and metal multi-pane replacement window to left. Casement window in attic gables. Wing returns with C20 metal casements at first and ground floors. Central entrance door with simple canopy: glazed door with 2-panel lower section set in doorcase with panelled reveals and open-pediment canopy on curved brackets. Right return side: 2 C20 casements with leaded lights over C20 lean-to. Left return side: partly rendered timber-frame on stone and brick plinth. Rear with 2 restored casements at first floor: C17 chamfered mullioned 2-light casement to right and C20 restored casement to left. 3 C2O 2-light casements and glazed door at ground-floor level, all casements with leaded lights. Timber-framed gable-end to right of square panels, restored sill, girding beam, studs with mid rails, jowled posts, swept brace, cambered tie beam, vertical strut and collar. Single clasped purlin roof evident. INTERIOR: centre and right-hand wing form 3 bays of C17 origin with chamfered bridging beams and cross bridging beams with ogee-chamfer stops, and single trenched purlin roof under C18 raised eaves. Left-hand end bay probably C16 and has cellar with ashlar winding stairs adjacent to large rubble stack.

Listing NGR: SO5261970469