Lanhill Farmhouse And Stables Attached

Lanhill Farmhouse and attached stables was built around 1845 by James Thomson for J. Neeld of Grittleton House. It is constructed of squared rubble stone with stone-tiled roofs, notable for clustered octagonal chimney shafts – one group of four to the ridge of each rear wing, and a large side wall stack on the west side. The house is roughly square, and designed in a picturesque cottage style. The main front features two half-hipped gables with eaves overhang, and two first-floor oriels with hipped roofs. It has small-paned casement windows and stone brackets extending down to a moulded stone string course, with two-light moulded recessed stone-mullion windows on the ground floor. A projecting, four-stage Italianate porch tower is central to the front, featuring a chamfered doorcase with an arched window above it. Above that is a window with a bowl-shaped sill and moulded head, followed by a set-off to the third stage with sundial panels on three sides, and a final set-off to a bell-turret with two-light arched openings on each side, completed with a pyramid roof. The west and east sides of the house have paired gables and two-light recessed stone-mullion windows with small-paned casements. A 20th-century rendered two-storey range with a stone-tiled roof extends from the north-east angle, built over the original single-storey north range with half-hipped gables. Attached at the north-west angle is a long stable range, single-storey with a hipped roof. It includes a window, a door, paired stable doors, a single stable door, and six open bays supported by circular pillars.