Fields Farmhouse

HORTON C.P. GRATTON LANE SJ 95 NW 8/79 Fields Farmhouse - 22.10.52 - II

Farmhouse. Dated 1705 and 1715, with substantial mid-C18 addition, altered early C19. Red brick with ashlar quoins and dressings and coursed and dressed stone; tie and stone slate roofs; brick end stacks. Front in 2 parts: gable to left of 2 storeys and attic with verge parapets and chamfer-mullion casement windows: 2-light to attic, 4-light to first floor and single-light to ground; boarded door set to right with circular inscribed datestone R over. Early C19 wing set to right of 2 storeys with W M parapet on cornice and string at first floor level; 1715 symmetrical layout of 3 windows; glazing bar sashes, rusticated voussoir heads, enlarged centre window with moulded architrave ramped to keystone and taken down as pilastered background to pediment doorcase on corbels; 4, (arch-top) panel door. C18 wing is stone-faced to rear with large mullioned and transomed stair window. Rear gable has 4-light, mullioned windows to ground and first floor, 2-light to attic; further datestone to apex inscribed M Both datestones refer to the Reade family, conspicuous W R builders previously of Blackwood Hill (q.v.). 1705 Interior: Chinese Chippendale staircase with dog-gates central to C18 wing; arch-top panelled cupboards flanking fireplace in room to right of entrance.

Listing NGR: SJ9327555577