Mill Farmhouse

STANFORD-IN-THE-VALE FARINGDON R0AD SU39SW (East side) 5/229 Mill Farmhouse 21/11/66 II

Farmhouse. c.1730. Coursed and dressed limestone, brick dressings; stone slate roof; brick stack. 2-unit lobby entry plan with rear left wing. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys; 5-window range. Central late C19 door with overlight reset in mid C20 porch. Gauged brick jambs and flat arches to two 8-pane late C18 sashes on ground floor; similar arches and surrounds to 3 blind windows alternating with two 6-pane sashes on first floor. Brick plinth course and raised storey band, eaves band and raised quoining. Hipped roof; ridge stack. Similar arch and surround to 2-light wood-mullioned cross window in left gable wall. Kitchen range to rear left, of coursed limestone rubble with stone slate roof; 2-storey, 3-window range of chamfered timber lintels over C20 casements and C18 plank door in right wall; gabled roof, no stack. Interior: Late C19 four-panelled doors, except C18 two-panelled door on first floor; chamfered beams and straight flight framed staircase adjoining tack room to rear left. Winder stairs adjoining stack and opposite entry. Blocked fireplaces, that in first floor right room adjoining a 2-panelled cupboard door. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.227).

Listing NGR: SU3436392689