Callas Hill Farmhouse Including Garden Area Railings, Piers And Gate Adjoining South West

Callas Hill Farmhouse, Lower Wanborough

A house formerly used as a farmhouse, dating to the 18th century with possible earlier fabric, extended in the early 19th century. The main structure is built of stone rubble with a red brick front in Flemish bond featuring burnt headers. The roof is tiled with gabled and half-hipped ends, and brick stacks rise at the gable ends.

The original plan consists of two rooms with straight stairs and a lobby between them. Both rooms are heated by gable end stacks. Behind the left-hand room is an integral unheated outshut. In the early 19th century, a two-storey single-room plan addition was constructed at the right end. A small cottage or converted outbuilding stands at right angles in front of this right-hand end, now linked to the main house by an outshut.

The exterior presents two storeys and an attic. The south-east front is symmetrical with three windows. The first-floor windows are 20th-century three-light and central two-light casements with glazing bars set in openings with flat brick arches. Two large 20th-century bay windows occupy the ground floor, with a central panelled door between them, its top panels glazed, sheltered by a canopy. Two small flat-roof dormers date to the 20th century. The outshut on the right links the main house to the converted outbuilding or cottage, which is also built in Flemish bond brick with burnt headers and a tiled roof with hipped and gabled ends. This subsidiary building is two storeys with a two-window front featuring two-light casements, and a doorway converted into a window.

The rear elevation of the main house is stone rubble, with the roof carried down as a cat-slide over a single-storey outshut on the right. This rear elevation features various casements and a small bay window on the ground floor. The north-east end displays 19th-century twelve-pane sashes. The south-west gable end, facing the road, has a doorway with a 19th-century ornate cast-iron porch and sash with glazing bars.

The garden area at the south-west end is enclosed by 19th-century rusticated stone piers with moulded caps, a short section of railings on the north-west side, and a cast-iron pedestrian gate on the south-east side.

The interior features chamfered cross-beams and early 19th-century plank and panelled doors with HL hinges. The roof has a collar-truss construction with butt purlins.