The Old Farmhouse And Uraniborg

SU 45 SW ST MARY BOURNE CHAPEL LANE, Stoke

184/4/10010 The Old Farmhouse and Uraniborg 9.11.99 II

House, divided into two dwellings. c1500; remodelled early C17; altered C18 and C19; extended late C20. Timber-framed with plastered and brick infilling. Thatched roof with hipped ends. Brick axial and lateral stacks. PLAN: 3-bay main range, with 2-bay cross-wing at high right [SW] end; at least two bays of the main range [the hall] and the cross-wingwere open to the roof and have smoke-blackened roof timbers. Floors and an axial stack were inserted in about the early C17. Late in C20 a 1-bay extension incorporating a garage was built at the left [NE] end. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 4-window range. Various casements, groud floor right 2-lights with small panes; attic windows under eyebrow eaves; in small gable to right of, centre and under eaves of hipped roof cross-wing on right there are C17 canted oriels on shaped brackets; doorways at centre and on right with thatched canopies. Right-hand return and rear wall of cross-wing faced in brick; main range to right also partly faced in brick, eyebrow dormers and thatched canopy over doorway to right, with C20 garage to right of that. INTERIOR: Main range has stop-chamfered axial beams, brick fireplaces with chamfered timber bressumers, and old plank doors. Cross-wing has two rooms on ground floor with chamfered beam with cyma stops above partition and unchamfered joists; cross-wing roof is 2 bays with chamfered cambered tie-beams on jowled storey-posts, and with collar-rafters, all smoke-blackened. Clasped-purlin roof over main range with square-set ridge-piece on small collar, common-rafters and many of the battens intact, all smoke-blackened.

Listing NGR: SU4142851245