Home Farmhouse

FETCHAM THE STREET TQ/15/NW (west side) 2/57 Home Farmhouse 7.9.51 GV II

Farmhouse, now house. c.1700, altered and enlarged. Brick, now painted white, red tile roof. Shallow double-depth plan with large lean-to extension to the rear. Two storeys and 3 bays, with cellar and attic; symmetrical; the central doorway (up 6 steps protected by simple wrought-iron bar railings with handrails curved outwards at the bottom) has a moulded cornice on brackets, a wooden doorcase, and a pegged panelled door with 3 glazed panels at the top; on either side are 2 segmental-headed cellar windows (that immediately left of the steps now blocked); and the windows on the principal floors are all 16-pane unhorned sashes with exposed boxes, those at ground floor with segmental heads. The roof has 2 flat-roofed dormers with 2-light casements. Both gable walls have very large external chimney stacks, that to the left with a sashed window inserted towards the rear at ground floor, and that to the right with the gable-line of a granary formerly attached at this end. The rear has inter alia some segmental-headed windows, and a very obtrusive flat-roofed "dormer" rising from the eaves to the right of the centre (over the head of the staircase). Interior: former entrance hall between the 2 principal ground floor rooms, with a timber-framed partition on the left, but the former partition on the right now removed; to the rear of the right-hand room, a shallow former kitchen with a cross-corner fireplace, and high in the rear wall 3 long timber pads of unknown purpose. Before removal of part of the partition wall to the rear of the left room, the shallow space on this side was divided between a small office in the rear corner, and the staircase; this is doglegged, winding round a newel post, and has a closed string, turned balusters, and moulded handrail Strap and H-L hinges on some doors; 4-room cellar, 3 with barrel-vault ceilings; 2-span collar-rafter roof with some carpenter's marks.

Listing NGR: TQ1469356086