Zeaston

UGBOROUGH - SX 65 NE

9/112 Zeaston - - II

Farmhouse. Circa late C16. Plastered stone rubble and cob. Slate roof with gabled and hipped ends. Left-hand (south west) lower end has lower roof level. 3 rooms and through passage plan, with parlour wing of higher end with stair turret in the angle and porch to through passage doorway. Large axial chimney-stack backing onto through passage and another at higher (north-east) gable end. Later stack at lower end in originally unheated lower end. 2 storeys. 5-window range to south-east front. 2 and 3-light casements with leaded panes. 2 ground floor windows and doorway have later cambered brick arches. Through passage doorway to left of centre with plank door. North-west front, now rear has gabled porch to through passage doorway with later 2-centred stone arch. Hall hipped roof to parlour wing to left with stair projection in the angle. Interior: chamfered hall fireplace beam with step stops and stone rubble jambs. Similar at gable end wall of inner room. Circa C17 plank partition at inner end of hall with scratch mouldings. Hall has thin roughly hewn ceiling beams. Later stairs in rear turret. Roof: principals are morticed at apices and cut far diagonal ridge piece which is missing, morticed for threaded purlin which are also missing. Dovetail lap-joins for collars.

Listing NGR: SX6883358426