The Old House

STANFORD-IN-THE-VALE UPPER GREEN SU3493 (North side) 3/252 No.17 (The Old House)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Datestones at top of cross gables IY/HY 16/70. Coursed limestone rubble; stone slate roof; limestone rubble stack. 2-unit lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Door in central gabled porch, probably original, has been blocked by C20 window and wall; house now entered from block to left. Chamfered timber lintels over C20 casements except C18 three-light wood-mullioned cross window left of door. Gabled roof with 2 cross gables to front, ridge and left external gable end stacks. Staircase projection with hipped roof to centre of rear elevation. Interior: Full set of chamfered and stopped beams and joists throughout; original ribbed doors to newel stairs in rear projection and on first floor. 4-bay collar-truss roof with tusk-tenoned butt purlins. Mid C20 passage to rear of house has reset late C17 panelling. Cottages to left of house partly demolished and remodelled in mid C20; limestone rubble walling, stone slate gabled roof; timber lintels over main entry to house and C20 casements. The initials IY and HY on the front of the house probably Yates, a prosperous local yeoman family in the C17. In the C19 this was known as Duckett's Farmhouse. (V.M. Howse, Stanford-in-the-Vale: A Parish Record, 1962, Vol.2, p.27).

Listing NGR: SU3408493896