Home Farm House And Attached Farmbuildings, Sezincote Estate

SP 13 SE 4/122 21.8.60

SEZINCOTE SEZINCOTE PARK Home Farm house and attached farmbuildinqs, Sezincote Estate (formerly listed as Stables and Bailiff's house)

GV II*

Farmhouse, flanking farm buildings, stable yard left and estate office wing right 1800 - 1805 by Samuel Pepys Cockerell and Thomas Daniell for Sir Charles Cockerell. Facade: coursed squared and dressed limestone with ashlar stacks, plinth and pilasters, slate roof. E-shaped plan with stable blocks extending back on left and estate office wing extending back on right. Symmetrically placed double entrances to yards in to either side of farmhouse, at centre of facade. Facade of farmhouse breaks forward from facade in 2 symmetrical steps. Projecting part of facade almost symmetrical with engaged octagonal columns at corners continued up above roof level and surmounted by ball finials. 2 storeys with half storey in addition at centre. 1:1:1-windowed. 3-light stone-mullioned casements to second and third floors of central projecting portion. Second floor window with projecting hood supported on decorative brackets with incised decoration below. 2-light metal casements to second floor either side. All second floor windows with leaded panes. 3-light central ground floor. Mogul-Hindu style window with cusped pointed headed lights, radiating glazing bars at top with projecting hood. Single light window on right. 2-panelled door with cusped and pointed headed fanlight to match other ground floor windows left. Three C20 plate glass windows right of central projecting feature. 2-light C20 casement left also. Dairy far right projects forwards slightly from facade: one storey. 3-light window matching central ground floor window of house with rectangular stone lattice work panel above. Former cottage now store far left with gable end at front projecting slightly from facade. Ground floor window matching central ground floor window of house. 2-light metal casement above. Facade between house, dairy and cottage with pilasters at regular intervals and small blind windows with curved and stepped upper corners between each pilaster. Circular ventilation holes in blind windows on left of house. Lean-to roof behind wall linking house and dairy on right. Pyramidal roof to dairy with parapet with pointed merlons. Stone minarets at four corners with domed tops and rosette decoration. Rear left minaret possibly chimney. Central wooden minaret with stone finials at corners. Interior of dairy: octagonal central marble table with stone statue of woman in an octagonal bowl at centre. Walls tiled to ceiling height with simple painted decoration at margins.

Listing NGR: SP1720130919