Featherstones

Featherstones is a house that was formerly a vicarage, built in 1840. It is constructed from unrendered roughly coursed stone rubble and features a hipped slate roof. The building has an axial brick stack and rebuilt front and rear stacks on the right side. It has a rectangular plan, two rooms deep, with two principal rooms to the left and a single room to the right of the entrance and stair hall. The house is two storeys high and has a four-window range. The left-hand window on the ground floor and the window openings on each floor at the right end are blocked. The original 19th-century windows are intact, featuring 12 panes and hornless sashes with margin glazing bars. Dressed stone lintels with keystones are present above the windows. An off-centre doorway is topped with a bracketed, pedimented timber canopy, leading to a recessed raised and fielded six-panelled door. The windows in the central bay at the right end on each floor are also blocked. Inside, the 19th-century joinery remains intact. The Parsonage was built by Lord Rolle on a three-acre site purchased for £200, as noted by Rev Andrews in "The Parish of Chittlehamholt."