Laburnum Farmhouse

EAST ALLINGTON EAST ALLINGTON SX74NE Laburnum Farmhouse 4/63 II

Small farmhouse, formerly on the Fallapit estate. Circa mid to late C19. Slate rubble with red brick dressings. Slate hipped roof with black ridge tiles and deep eaves with exposed rafter ends. Side and rear lateral stacks with rendered shafts with turned red clay pots, the rear lateral stack with pair of diagonally set shafts. Plan: L-shaped on plan. Two principal rooms in the front range with a central entrance; the right hand room heated from a lateral stack at the back and the left hand room has an end stack which might also serve the 2-storey wing behind the left room, unless it is an unheated room such as a dairy. Later in the C19 a small single storey outbuilding was built at the rear in the angle. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2 window south front with brick cogged string course at first floor level. C19 2-light casements with glazing bars in brick dressed openings with slate sills, the ground floor with segmental brick arches; the ground floor right hand window has been altered in C20. Central doorway with glazed and panelled door and slate rubble gabled porch with slate roof and chamfered 2-centred arch. At the rear 2-storey hipped roof wing to right with doorway in end wall and small later brick single storey extension on left side. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX7696648755