Freeman'S Farmhouse And Attached Garden Walls And Gatepiers

ST 56 NW BARROW GURNEY C.P. FREEMAN'S LANE (north side)

3/22 Freeman's Farmhouse and attached Garden Walls and Gatepiers 11.lO.51 II

Farmhouse. C17 core with C18 and C19 alterations: Rendered rubble with ashlar dressings, stacks and double Roman tile roof. 2 storeys and attic, 6-window principal north front refaced in late C19. Windows are C19 cross wooden mullions with small pane casements to ground and 1st floors, 3 gabled dormers to attic. Central Wren style late C19 doorcase with broken pediment and ball finial. C19 plank door. 1st floor string course and above, the wall face to upper floor has pargetting in render with central coat of arms and coved cornice. Double span roof, end stacks and one centre ridge stack. Interior. Some C17 chamfered beams; ground floor left hand room to the north has c.1740 style chimneypiece and overmantel in carved wood probably inserted in the late C19; open well staircase with moulded handrail and turned balusters. Garden walls to the north returned to the house of squared and coursed rubble. 2.5 metres high to the side, lower at north boundary of formal garden. Ashlar gatepiers with 1 left hand urn with tapered cap finial, the other dislodged; further. ball finials at wall corners. All garden features comprise a late C19 formal layout.

Listing NGR: ST5182066917