Courthope Farm

TR 14 NW LYMINGE MILL LANE (south-west side)

Stelling Minnis

1/161 Courthope Farm

II

Farmhouse. Late C16, with C18, C19 and C20 alterations. Timber framed. Facade red and grey brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. 3 timber-framed bays and stack bay. 2 storeys and attic. Hipped roof. Large brick ridge stack extending into front slope of roof, towards right end. Dormer to right hip. Irregular fenestration of 4 two-light casements; three to left and one to right of stack. Ribbed door under second first-floor window from left, and blocked door with segmental head to right end. Brick lean-to to right gable end and 1987 brick lean-to to left. Rendered single-storey C19 addition to rear with hipped plain tile roof. Interior: renewed joists to left ground-floor room, but evidence for underbuilt jetty to rear. Fragment of four-centred-arched doorhead with hollow spandrels and roll-moulding towards front of partition between left and central rooms. Central ground-floor room has chamfered axial beam and chamfered beam across stack, both with fleur-de-lys chamfer stops. Shaped bracket under left end of axial beam. Unchamfered joists. Brick fireplace with herringbone brick back and four-centred-arched roll- moulded bressumer with hollow spandrels carved with leaf spears. Right ground-floor room has beam across stack, and chamfered axial beam. Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer and bread oven extending to front wall. Cambered axial tie-beam with short solid-spandrel braces to left first-floor room. Central tension-braced stud to right gable end. Exposed framing. Clasped-purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters and deep collars.

Listing NGR: TR1512841576