Orchard Farmhouse

TF 71 NW 6/27

GAYTON ORCHARD ROAD Orchard Farmhouse

II

House, former farmhouse, late C18 and C17. C18 range to road of chalk with gault brick dressings, flint base, hipped slate roof. 1 bay, 2 storeys. French window with flanking lights under wide skew back arch, flush sash with glazing bars above; left return to west with flush sashes with glazing bars to ground floor and to stair at first floor left, blank opening to first floor; right return with flush sash to ground floor, inserted sash first floor right. North face of brick dressed flint. Low C17 range attached to rear: flint, some galletted with carstone, carstone, brick dressings, pantile roof, upper walls raised; chimney bay with cell to either side, additional cell to north; massive axial stack of gault brick below, red brick above. Facade to west: doorway to chimney bay with rustic gabled porch, boarded door; windows inserted c.1982, 3-light casements either side of doorway, 2-light casement to right, all under segmental heads, 4 casement dormers. Bay to north in flint with some dressed limestone quoins, low blocked opening; blocked attic opening to north return. East facade with doorways to left and casements to right of cells flanking chimney bay; 2 dormers of c.1982. Interior: single rooms to ground and first floor of C18 part with reeded window frames and reeded surround to ceilings; duck's nest grates, that to first floor with silhouette of George III and one other. C17 range with large central stack of 5cm bricks, 2 fire places with canted interiors; ogee stopped tie beams, ceiling joists renewed.

Listing NGR: TF7269219384