West Antony Farmhouse

SX 45 SW ANTONY

6/20 West Antony Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse C17, with C19 and C20 alterations. Sandstone rubble, pebbledashed front, slate roofs with gable end stack to left, former front lateral stack and gable end stack to right. Originally 3-room and through passage plan, with lower end to right now with separate entrance to front left, adjacent to passage entry; hall to left heated by front lateral stack and inner room to end left, substantially rebuilt in C19 with roof level raised above level of roof over hall; lower end has lower roof level. Rear wing, possibly of later C17/early C18, set behind hall and passage; stair tower to rear left of inner room. 2 storeys, upper end to left has 2 paired 4-pane sashes and central single 4-pane sash at ground floor, 3 gabled dormers above each with 4-pane sash; to right, front lateral stack, capped at eaves, with oven projection at base. Passage has porch with pitched slate roof, door with timber lintel, and gabled dormer above. Single storey late C19 addition to right, and to left end. Walls slightly battered. To rear of inner room, a blocked 2-light hollow-chamfered granite window with iron stanchion at ground floor; stair tower has 4-pane light. Rear wing of 1½ storeys has C20 window to rear and left side. Interior 3-centred arched oak doorframe, leading from the main range to the rear wing, possibly on site of original rear passage doorway. Ovolo-moulded doorframe with scroll stops between the hall and inner room now sited within a C20 corridor leading to an C18 newel staircase with balustrading. Some chamfered and stopped cross beams survive in the hall. At first floor a 4-bay roof at the high end has a coved plaster ceiling; principal rafters and diagonally set ridge purlin. Formerly part of the Antony estate.

Listing NGR: SX4011054626