Deptford Farmhouse

WYLYE DEPTFORD SU 03 NW (south side) 2/117 Deptford Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. Late C17, altered about 1810. Dressed limestone, tiled roof with brick stacks and coped verges. Two-storey, 8-window south front. Three French windows and two 3-light casements, some altered or blocked openings, first floor has moulded string course and four 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements and one 2- light casement; three blocked mullioned casements, hipped attic dormer. Right return has large 12-pane margin-pane sash to first floor and small sash to attic, reset half-glazed door to rear basement. Left return has large 12-pane margin-pane sash to left, 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement to rear basement, 4- light casement to ground floor and blocked sash to front first floor, small sash to attic. Rear outshut raised to first floor in Flemish bond brick, early C19 and rear entrance created at first floor level (house built on slope of hill); central double half- glazed doors with Adam-style fanlights. Interior altered early C19 with new entrance hall and stairs with stick balusters, rear drawing room and bedroom added. Kitchen now in place of former dairy, flagstone floors and blocked open fireplace. Early C19 alteration for Mr. Gourlay, gentleman farmer and campaigner for social and agrarian reform. (L.D. Milani, Robert Gourlay, Gadfly, 1971)

Listing NGR: SU0123738294