Meadow Place Farmhouse

IPSTONES C.P. BACK LANE, Ipstones SK 0249-0349 (north side) 15/183 Meadow Place 2.5.53 Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. C17 with early C18 and C19 alterations. Coursed dressed stone; cavetto string at first-floor level; tiled roof on cyma recta eaves band; verge parapets; ridge stack behind main entrance and end stack to right. 2-storey, 3-window front, widely spaced to left; 3 windows remain: to right-hand bay and ground floor centre with narrowly- spaced chamfered mullions of 3 lights, the remaining windows of similar overall dimensions and in the original reveals, have been modified to paired lights with small-pane casements; String steps over heavy lintel to principal entrance to left of centre with Tudor arch and C20 panelled door, further later entrance to left end and blocked door to right of centre. The latter is set against a straight joint, quoined to left and running up to first-floor window level indicating the right-hand bay to be an early addition, at which time the eaves were also raised. The interior has a reset stone found near the site, now set in the chimney breast of the right-hand room. The stone, probably medieval and of monastic origin depicts a head and bestiary.

Listing NGR: SK0220849518