Limerstone Farmhouse Including Brewhouse

BRIGHSTONE SZ48SW LIMERSTONE ROAD 1354-0/8/35 Limerstone Farmhouse including 18/01/67 Brewhouse

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Farmhouse. Early C17. Built of Isle of Wight stone rubble with ashlar quoins and hipped C20 tiled roof with red brick stacks. L-shaped 2 storeys, 3 windows (not regular). 1st floor has 2 triple casements with stone mullions. 3rd window has early C20 wooden architrave. Ground floor has central 4-light stone mullioned window with stone hood moulding. Left hand window has remains of C17 stone hood moulding but C19 frame. Right side window has an C18 stone architrave with later casement. Cambered headed stone doorcase. Left side elevation has 1 C17 mullioned window to main house and another to the 1st floor of the wing. Interior has beams with 3 inch chamfers with lamb's tongue stops. Lounge has late C16 or early C17 panelling and cocks head hinges. Late C16 oak board painted with text discovered beneath the floorboards during restoration in 1884. "Flee sinfull lies flee unkind speeche, Ye seeke the thing that is above thy reache And as thou woldst with that others do to thee So do to them, let work and deed agree.

On this site in the mid C17 an oratory for Black Canons was founded here by a member of the Tichborne family who owned this tithing of the Manor of Colbourne from the mid C12 to the mid C18. Attached to the south is an C18 brewhouse. 1 storey Isle of Wight stone rubble with some ironstone and peg tiled roof with 1 brick chimneystack. End quoins. South side has 1 cambered triple casement. Cambered doorway, triangular buttress and 2 circular iron ties. Casements to rear. Interior has brick fireplace and queen strut roof with ridgepiece.

Listing NGR: SZ4414682628