Parsonage Farmhouse

NEWCHURCH SZ58NE THE SHUTE 1352-0/1/157 Parsonage Farmhouse II Farmhouse formerly parsonage. Late C17, possibly an earlier foundations, extended in C18 and c1830. Built of Isle of Wight stone rubble or coursed rubble with brick dressings. Tiled roof and brick chimneystacks. Complicated plan of late C17 house built endwise to road with late C18 3-bay T wing added facing the road, late C18 offices on other side, and c1830 billiard room built on to T wing. Original part of house had 2 C18 or early C19 mullioned windows on 1st floor and later mullioned windows on ground floor. Doorcase has later plank door in moulded wooden architrave. Late C18 1 storey stone extension to right with round-headed doorcase. Late C18 T wing has 3 C19 casement windows with red brick dressings. Rear elevation at junction with earlier part of house has brick wall with some English and some Flemish bond. Roof has some curved tiles. Early C19 billiard room extension of 1 storey dated 1830 with initials IJ in the end wall. Mainly stone rubble, but end wall of brick in Sussex bond. Pantiled roof. Living room has a massive oak bressumer to fireplace and a spine beam with 5in chamfer, probably C16 or early C17 and possibly the core of an earlier building. Early C18 staircase with splat balusters and turned newel post. 1st floor has 3 beams with 2 to 3 inch chamfers, late C17 or early C18 in date. Roof was originally thatched. The purlins are butted on to the principal rafters. Diagonal tension braces. Original floor boards. Plank and muntin partition. C18 T wing has roof with chamfered staggered purlins. Half winder staircase to attics with 2-panelled door. Cupboard with butterfly hinges. Billiard room has 2 corner cupboards with serpentine shelves. There is documentary evidence of a house here in 1548. The Edgcombe family of Mount Edgcombe in Cornwall owned this house for many years. Richard Edgcombe probably built the earliest part of the house c1685, perhaps around an earlier core and Lord George Edgcombe probably extended it in the late C18.

Listing NGR: SZ5607385821