Graylingwell Farmhouse

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SU 80 NE SP/458

SUMMERSDALE ROAD Graylingwell Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Summersdale Farmhouse)

II Farmhouse, now part of Graylingwell Hospital, probably early C18. Red brick and tile roofs, with some flint walling to rear and old render to the front. Two storeys and six irregular bays. Plinth and wooden modillion cornice. Sash windows with glazing bars, apparently modern replacements. The first two bays of the ground floor are occupied by a large rectangular bay window, probably C20, and the third bay by a plastered porch with anelled pilasters and a recent roof. Dormers over the first and third and sixth bays and gable stacks. Gable walls have storey bands. At rear a hipped roof stair tower with blocked round-headed window has been flanked by later additions, though there was an original outshut under a catslide roof on the north side. Large Victorian cross-wing to the south and later additions outside that.

Inside, there is an early C19 plain stair. The room to the right of the entrance hall has an early C18 cornice carried round the cross beam. Upstairs there is one eight-panelled small-framed door which may be original. The roof has oak members and is of butt-purlin type. The oak pegs to the tiles survive at least in part.

Listing NGR: SU8686306430