Grace'S Farmhouse

BERRICK SALOME

SU6293 10/5 Grace's Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, now house. Early/mid C17, altered C18 and extended C19. Colourwashed rubble and brick dressings; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. 2-unit plan with double rear wing, extended. 2 storeys plus attics. 3-window front has C18/C19 windows and no entrance, the small central windows lighting cupboards in line with stack. Present entrance in double-gabled return to left, the rear part of which contains a canted bay window and is a C19 infill of the L-plan. Rear includes the M-roofed earlier rear wing. Roof of main range has large central stack with renewed shafts. Interior: central stack has 5 brick fireplaces, including 3 with Tudor arches in chamfered rectangular recesses; those at first floor have panelled overmantels with brick cornices. Open-well stair in rear wing has pierced splat balusters, knob finials, pendants and a roll-moulded handrail. Original half of main roof has an arch-braced collar truss, 2 rows of butt purlins and 3 rows of wind braces (2 above and one below purlins). There are some C17 panelled doors (one dated 1655), 2 corbels dated 1663 and a beam with double-ovolo moulding.

Listing NGR: SU6217393903