Sundial Farmhouse

BOYTON CORTON VILLAGE ST 94 SW (north side) 4/32 Sundial Farmhouse 11.9.68 II

Farmhouse, now detached house. Late C17, altered late C18. Limestone rubble stone, tiled roof with coped verges, brick stacks. Two-storey, 4-windowed front. Six-panelled door in moulded architrave with pedimented porch on Doric columns to left of centre, to left is tripartite sash, to right are two tripartite sashes, enlarged 1960s. First floor has four 12-pane sashes, over door is stone sundial and lettering 17 RWS 75. Left return has 3- light casement to ground floor, 2-light casement to first floor. Rear has C20 glazed door inserted into former 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned window, 2-light casement to right in blocked doorway and 3-light casement in former mullioned window, first floor has two 2-light and one 3-light casement, all inserted into former mullioned windows in 1960s. Interior has open fireplace with timber lintel on stone jambs to west rooms, C18 dog-leg stairs with two turned balusters per tread, ramped handrail and turned newels, stair hall has reset C17 panelling with arabesque frieze. Drawing room has door with 6 fielded panels, marble fireplace with mural over; C18 landscape in painted eared architrave, recently uncovered (1985).

Listing NGR: ST9375340840