Metley

SX 87 SW OGWELL WEST OGWELL

2/21 Metley -

• II

Farmhouse. Late C16 or C17, probably incorporating the walls of a medieval house. Rendered stone or cob. Tiled roof, gabled at each end. 2-storeyed with single- storeyed lean-to's (probably later additions) at rear. Main range has 3-room and through-passage original plan, containing kitchen, hall and parlour in ground storey. Stacks at each gable and in rear of wall of hall. Stair turret behind kitchen. 4-window front with doorway left of centre, the front wall rebuilt from here leftwards. The 2 ground-storey windows right of doorway and the right-hand second-storey window have wooden ovolo-moulded mullions, the window next to the doorway being of 4 lights, the others of 3 lights. (Remaining windows are C19 wood casements). Right-hand gable has stack with tapered head. Also a wood ovolo- moulded mullioned window of 2 lights in each storey. The smaller ground-storey window (set in an earlier opening) has vertical ferrumenta in centre of each light and leaded diamond-shaped glazing. Left-hand gable has projecting chimney-breast with rectangular oven adjacent to it. Chamfered ceiling-beams in all 3 ground- storey rooms, those in parlour carved with raised floral and other motifs. Roof rebuilt in C20, but piece of medieval arch-braced collar-beam survives (re-used) in hall. Probably fireplaces and other internal features concealed under plaster.

Listing NGR: SX8104870324