Stillinghayes Farmhouse

UPOTTERY UPOTTERY ST 20 NW 7/146 Stillinghayes Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse. Circa 1870. Local stone and flint rubble with brick dressings, plastered on the front and white washed elsewhere; stone rubble stacks topped witn C19 and C20 brick; slate roof. Plan: 4-room plan farmhouse facing south. The main part, retaining the principal rooms, is at the left (west) end, nearest the road. These rooms have a through- passage between them which contains the main stair. The left room has a gable-end stack and the right room has an axial service stack backing onto the service rooms. The 2-room plan service block is lower and narrower than the main part and is set back a little from the main block. The first room here, thought to be the kitchen, has an axial stack backing onto the small end room, the dairy. The farmhouse is 2 storeys. Exterior: the main block has a symmetrical 2-window front of original casements with glazing bars, the ground floor windows under low segmental arches. Central passage front doorway contains original part-glazed 6-panel door under a gabled hood on shaped raking brackets. (The rear passage doorway is similar but here the hood has cusped bargeboards). The main roof is gable-ended and along the eaves of the main block is a timber open valance. The left (west) gable-end faces onto the road and has cusped bargeboards. Interior: not inspected. Stillinghayes forms part of a group of attractive listed buildings which form the centre of the village, most of them built by Lord Sidmouth in the C19.

Listing NGR: ST2021707702