Stelling Lodge Farm

Stelling Lodge Farm is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century or early 17th century, with later alterations and a 19th-century facade. It is timber framed, with the front elevation featuring red and grey brick in Flemish bond. The left gable end has older red brick in a mixed bond on the ground floor and red brick in Flemish bond above. The right gable end shows exposed framing with painted brick infilling on both floors, featuring gunstock-jowled posts, broadly-spaced studs, lacing pieces forming three panels to storey height, and almost straight tension braces. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has a lobby-entry plan consisting of four timber-framed bays, with two bays to the left and one to the right of the stack bay. The building has two storeys, boxed eaves, a hipped roof with a gablet to the right, and a multiflue brick ridge stack towards the right end. The fenestration is irregular, with two three-light casements—one to the left of centre and one at the right end. There is a boarded door behind a brick porch with a gabled plain tile roof, located under the stack. A red and grey brick lean-to with a plain tile roof is attached to the front elevation of the left end bay, along with a timber-framed rear lean-to. To the left, there is a short two-storey red and grey brick rear wing with a gabled plain tile roof. The interior has only been partly inspected; the front elevation of the left end bay, visible from the lean-to, features a jetty and mortices for framing and a four-light diamond mullion window. The ground floor left end room is ceiled, except for an axial beam morticed for a continuous partition with a doorhead towards the right end. There is a chamfered cross beam in the rear half of the room, as well as a chamfered axial beam and joists, with evidence of a front jetty in the left-central bay. A brick fireplace with a wooden bressumer is also present.