Stone House Farmhouse

Stone House Farmhouse is an early 17th-century house located on Broad Lane in Fillongley. It is constructed of squared sandstone of irregular courses, with some timber framing visible in the rear wall of the cross-wing. The roofs are plain-tiled, featuring a parapet of moulded stone, now eroded, with apex finials and sandstone obelisks to the parapet kneelers. There are two prominent ridge stacks: one of sandstone with four diagonally set red brick shafts above the ridge, and a projecting side stack to the cross-wing, also of sandstone with three diagonally set shafts of red brick. The original plan consists of a two-unit main range with a cross-wing.

The front of the house originally faced the garden. The principal front features a three-light cross-frame casement with an original ovolo-moulded architrave, transom and mullion. The parlour doorway has a depressed arch, which has been partly blocked and partly converted into a window. A similar lobby-entry doorway with a boarded door is on the rear wall facing the yard. Further windows include a three-light casement to the parlour and another ovolo-mullion window at the gable end, illuminating a first-floor chamber above the parlour. The cross-wing, comprising two bays and two storeys, has a main elevation overlooking the garden with similar stonework and roof details to the main range. This elevation contains a three-light casement with ovolo-mullions at both ground and first floors, each with a moulded label. The rear wall of the cross-wing, overlooking the yard, has timber framing. Later 19th-century dairy extensions were added to the side and end of the cross-wing.

Inside, a dog-leg staircase rises from the lobby-entry, featuring an original newel with symmetrical turning to baluster and a ball finial. Back-to-back inglenook hearths are present. The main beams have plain, unstopped chamfers. The first floor displays raised tie beams and paired wind bracing to two tiers of through purlins with Queen-struts. The layout incorporates a narrower bay to the lobby-entry and chimney bay. The service end, containing the solar or chamber above, is located within the cross-wing. At ground floor, the original partitions separating the buttery and pantry remain.