Goatacre Farmhouse

HILMARTON GOATACRE LANE SU 07 NW 6/255 Goatacre Farmhouse GV II Estate farmhouse, mid C19, possibly on earlier core, probably by Henry Weaver for Poynder estate. Red brick with ashlar dressings to main range, ashlar cross wing with squared rubble stone north end addition. Stone slate eaves roofs with ornate barge boards to main gables and paired octagonal ashlar stacks. 1 1/2 storeys, T-plan with stone mullion windows. Main range has west stack and two- window south front, two ashlar Jacobean-style shaped eaves dormer gables with 2-light mullion-and-transom windows, ground floor ashlar bay to left on red brick base with 1:2:1-light mullion-and- transom windows, single light with hoodmould to right, and in angle to cross wing, ashlar enclosed porch with stepped parapet, Tudor- arched entry and flush chamfered surround to inner door with applied Tudor detail. Cross wing has plinth, flush quoins, ground floor similar ashlar 1:2:1-light canted bay and first floor 2-light mullion-and-transom window with hoodmould. East side chimney gable with two octagonal stacks, and, to right, ground floor 3-light mullion and transom window with hoodmould and 2-light mullion window above in gabled eaves dormer. Flush quoins and brick ridge stack at original north end. Rubble stone north addition has similar side wall chimney gable with octagonal stack but cambered- head casement pair windows, two above, one to ground floor right and one each floor to north end wall. At west end of main range is C20 single storey brick addition with parapet and 1:2:1-light ashlar canted bay on brick base, possibly resited from west end wall.

Listing NGR: SU0186276990