Stone Farmhouse

TR 14 SW LYMINGE STONE STREET (east side)

3/163 Stone Farmhouse

II

Partly in Elmsted civil parish. Farmhouse, formerly cottages, now house. C15 or early C16, with C17 alterations and late C18 or early C19 facade. Timber framed. Front elevation red and grey brick in a Sussex-type bond to left of door, English bond to right of door, and mixed bond to right end. Plain tile roof. Open hall of two timber-framed bays, with storeyed end bay to left. Storeyed right end bay non-extant. 2 low storeys, on flint footings. Slight evidence for underbuilt gable-end jetty to left. Roof hipped to left, gabled to right. Brick ridge stack towards left end, in shorter left hall bay. Irregular fenestration of one two-light casement to right hall bay, none to left or centre. Ground floor has one six-pane light to left end, and one three-light and one single-light window to right hall bay. Boarded door behind open timber-framed porch with gabled plain tile roof under stack. Boarded doors with flat bracketed hoods to rear, to right and left of stack. Interior: broad axial joists morticed for central partition, to left end bay. Moulded left end-of-hall beam morticed for partition with central pair of doorheads and doorway towards rear end. Inserted cross beam to right side of stack and chamfered axial beam to inserted hall floor. Moulded and cambered central-truss tie-beam with hollow-chamfered arch brace. Brick fireplaces with wooden bressumers.

Listing NGR: TR1512841576