Townfield Farmhouse And Attached Barn

LUCKINGTON BACK STREET ST 88 SW Alderton

2/206 Townfield Farmhouse and attached barn

GV II

Farmhouse and barn range, dated 1786, possibly on earlier core, rubble stone with stone slate roof. Farmhouse is two-storey and attic with end stacks and two ridge stacks, squared rubble stone to front with raised band and cyma-moulded flush mullion windows. Four first floor 2-light windows, ground floor 2-light, blocked door, 3-light, door with chamfered stone surround in broad c1830-40 gabled porch and 3-light. Porch has ball-finial and tripartite front of depressed-arched entry with round-arched sidelights flanking. Date plaque RM 1786 above porch. At right end of house, slightly projected one-window range with casements above and door below, obscured by link to 2-storey gabled outbuilding parallel to front, rubble stone to east with ovolo-moulded 2-light to end-wall first floor and attic, early C19 squared rubble stone to west. Barn is attached to west end of farmhouse, plain north side entry, projecting hipped south cart-entry and 5-bay roof with tie-beam- and-collar trusses. Rear of house has 2-light mullion windows, with plain dripstones over lower windows.

Listing NGR: ST8393882722