Stanford Park Farmhouse

STANFORD-IN-THE-VALE BLACKACRES LANE SU39SE (North side) 6/211 Stanford Park Farmhouse 10/11/52 GV II

Farmhouse. c.1800. Flemish bond brick with flared headers to front and rear, coursed and dressed limestone to right side wall, coursed limestone rubble to other walls. Stone slate roof; brick stacks. 2 storeys; originally 3- now 2-window range. Cambered gauged brick arches over four 6-pane sashes, one of which has been reset in the original central door opening; other 2 windows have been blocked by C20 porch with present entrance to left. Projecting plinth course and storey band, dentilled eaves. Roof is hipped to right and attached to C20 extension to left; left end stack (rebuilt in C20) and two ridge stacks in rear right wing. Right side wall has brick jambs and segmental arches to 6-pane sashes in 3-window range; dentilled eaves. Rear elevation facing courtyard has segmental arches over C20 door with porch and a blocked door, 2- and 3-light leaded casements and an inserted late C19 horned sash in a 4-window range; dentilled eaves. 2-storey block attached to left gable wall- of rear wing has segmental arches over a plank door, one mid C19 two-light casement and a 2-light iron barred window. The small yard in the centre of the U-plan has a brick and tile lean-to with leaded casement windows built onto the rear of the right side wing. Interior. Remodelled c.1955 when the porch and wing to left of the front were added. The straight run staircase has been reset into a new position and much restored with balusters and newels. Rooms retain 4-panelled doors in moulded architraves and a 2-panelled door in a fine reeded architrave moved to the internal entry to the left wing of c.1955.

Listing NGR: SU3570593259