House 20 Metres North West Of St Stephen'S Cottages

This is a lobby-entrance house located 20 metres northwest of St. Stephen's Cottages, dating from the early 17th century and altered in the 19th century. It was disused when inspected in March 1983. The house is timber framed, with sections that are plastered, tile-hung, and bricked, and it has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of three bays aligned approximately northwest-southeast, facing northeast, and features an axial chimney stack with four grouped diagonal shafts in the middle bay, which forms the lobby entrance. There is a bakehouse to the southeast with a chimney stack at the end.

The house is two storeys high and has a plain door beneath a tiled gabled hood supported by elaborately carved scrolled brackets from the late 19th century. There are two windows on the ground floor and three on the first floor, which were boarded over at the time of inspection. The front elevation is plastered and has label mouldings over the ground floor windows, creating a symmetrical appearance. The gable ends are hung with handmade red clay tiles, mostly plain, with some banded in fishtail tiles, and feature elaborately scrolled bargeboards from the 19th century. The ground floor of the rear wall is bricked.

Inside, the northwest ground floor room has a plain-chamfered axial beam with bar stops and plain-chamfered joists of vertical section. The remainder of the interior was not seen but is reported to be open to the roof on the first floor. This symmetrical lobby-entrance house is of high quality, with a basic structure from the 17th century and some architectural distinction added in the late 19th century, remaining unaffected by modernisation since. An estate map from 1807 shows the building as the farmhouse of Feltimores Farm, alongside three other buildings on the site. It was purchased by the Perry-Watlington estate in 1831, and after 1849, a new farm complex was built approximately 350 metres to the southwest, which is the present Feltimores Farm.