Home Humber And Garden Walls Adjoining The House

SX 97 NW BISHOPSTEIGNTON HUMBER LANE

8/56 Home Humberand garden walls adjoining the house 23.8.55 (formerly listed as Home Humber Farmhouse)

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Former farmhouse. Late C17/early C18, possibly a remodelling of an earlier house or re-using beams and roof-timbers from an earlier building. Whitewashed rendered stone ; slate roof, hipped at ends ; end stacks, the left end stack projecting with a large lean-to, possibly an adaptation of a bread oven, rear axial stack to outshut. Plan: Single depth main block, with 2 principal heated rooms, one on either side of a wide entrance hall containing the stair ; kitchen in rear left outshut ; rear.right late C20 extension providing a separate house, Little Humber. A compact symmetrical plan of about 1700 although some interior details suggest that the core of the house may be earlier. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3 bay front, the centre bay broken forward and gabled to the front with an oculus in the gable with radiating glazing bars. Steps up to panelled front door in the centre, flanked by pilasters and surmounted by a fine shell hood supported on brackets with a cherub's head at the base of the shell. Single light windows flank the door with C20 brick sills, windows to outer bays 2-light C20 casements with small panes and brick sills. Short sections of ramped garden walls adjoin the front of the house to left and right. Interior: Good survival of interior features, including a complete set of very good late C17/early C18 panelled doors on the first and ground floors of various different designs. The bottom flight of stairs has a balustrade with moulded balusters and handrail, an open string and a ball finial to the newel. Ground floor right has a plastered-over crossbeam, C19 chimneypiece with good iron grate and an early C18 china cupboard on the rear wall. The left hand room has a chamfered step-stopped crossbeam which may be C18 or early C17, but could be re-used ; mid C19 chimneypiece. The kitchen, in the rear left outshut, has a large open fireplace with a segmental arched iron lintel, smaller fireplace on rear wall with a flue into the same stack. The second flight of the main stair is panelled round the stair well (the panelling possibly re-sited), flight of stairs to attic storey which has plainer plank doors. Roof: Massive pegged collar rafter trusses, formerly with lap dovetailed collars, the principal rafters supported on vertical posts. The character of the trusses appears to pre-date the late C17, they may be re-used timbers. A high quality house with external and interior features.

Listing NGR: SX9011475547