Home Farm

TQ 05SW GUILDFORD NIGHTINGALE ROAD (North Side) 2/157 Home Farm GV II Model farm complex. Dated 1881. Red brick with Roman pantile roofs, the majority hipped under tiled ridge cresting and with diagonal brick dentils to eaves. Square plan around a central yard with parallel ranges to east and narrow entrance to south west corner. East ranges:- Granary and stables to front, parallel implement shed and cart shed behind. Two storeys with ribbed plinth to centre of roof formerly supporting a cupola. Five slit breathers below on first floor facing yard. Two C2O ground floor windows and two doors under cambered heads. Brick corbels across the ground floor possibly once supported a cover over the yard, Throughway to right leads to open-sided shed and parallel range to right. South Range (parallel to road):- Stables. Single storey with hip-roofed centre pavilion under square pyramidally-roofed louvred lantern, finials to ends of roof. Double doors to right flanked by single boarded doors under segmental heads. Further door to centre pavilion under cambered head and flanked by casement windows. Left hand end now part of throughway. West range:- Single storey with end finials to roof and three pyramidally-roofed ridge lanterns. Two planked doors under over- lights and cambered heads, single casement to left and mullioned and transomed casement to right. Southern end of this range forms part of the entrance. West elevation (facing Stoke Park):- plinth below, three cambered-head casements above with tiled sills and chamfered surrounds. North range:- Single storey with plain tiled pentice extension to centre over pigsties. Paired cambered-head entrances and one outer entrance flanking to each end. Sty walls part demolished. North elevation:- three C20 cambered-head windowsto centre pavilion, double doors to left. Extended range to left with three stable doors alternating with stilted- arch windows. An unusually complete model farm complex of a late date.

Listing NGR: TQ0012750257