South Blatchborough Farmhouse

SS21SE BRADWORTHY CP BLATCHBOROUGH

5/10 South Blatchborough Farmhouse (formerly listed as Blatchborough House and Farmhouse)

14.2.58 II

Farmhouse enlarged as shooting box. C18 farmhouse with C19 outshot, early-mid C19 shooting box addition by Calmady family. Random rubble local stone, rendered full-height bay to shooting box, roughcast on facade of farmhouse, roofs of different pitches to each block, very shallow pitch bitumenised slate roof to shooting box with decorative fretted pelmet to eaves, similar to gabled porch, asbestos slates to farmhouse, rendered stack left gable end, residual rebuilt C20 stack right, C20 stack to right of small centre block, C19 painted brick stack right gable end of farmhouse. Plan: original 2-cell and cross passage farmhouse linked by 2 bay block to shooting box, continous outshot at rear of farmhouse; shooting box U-plan, main reception rooms on either side of central corridor, stairs rising against rear wall centre flanked by wings linked by single storey range. Shooting box: 2 storeys, 3 bays, all wooden windows, wooden mullioned and transomed with pointed arches to upper lights, full-height canted bay left, french windows ground floor right of porch, double doors, panelled and half-glazed with 2-light pointed arch lights. Left return, remains of simple 3-bay verandah with timber posts. Mullioned and transomed window on rear elevation much eroded. Farmhouse 2:3 bays, late C19 casements and mid C20 windows, gabled porch, plank door. Interior of shooting box partially sighted: cast iron balusters with scrolled heart motif, now gilded, swept back with mahogany handrail; panelled shutters to front room right, 1930s chimneypiecce, also in front room left, moulded architraves to doors. Interior of farmhouse not seen. The previous list gives a date of 1822 for the shooting box.

Listing NGR: SS2852414069