Home Farm House And Attached Farmbuildings, Sezincote Estate

A farmhouse with attached farm buildings, a stable yard to the left, and an estate office wing to the right, dating from 1800 to 1805. The buildings were designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell and Thomas Daniell for Sir Charles Cockerell, as part of the Sezincote Estate.

The facade is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone with ashlar stacks, a plinth, and pilasters, topped with a slate roof. The building follows an "E" shape, with stable blocks extending to the left and the estate office wing to the right. Symmetrically placed entrances to the yards are positioned on either side of the farmhouse, centrally on the front of the facade. The farmhouse section projects forward in two symmetrical steps; its central section features engaged octagonal columns at the corners which rise above roof level and are topped with ball finials. The building has two storeys, with a half-storey at the centre. The fenestration is arranged as a 1:1:1 window pattern. Stone-mullioned casement windows with three lights are present on the second and third floors of the central projecting portion. A projecting hood supported by decorative brackets, featuring incised decoration, sits above the second-floor window. Two-light metal casements are on either side of the second floor. All second-floor windows have leaded panes. The ground floor has a three-light window in a Mogul-Hindu style with cusped pointed lights, radiating glazing bars at the top, and a projecting hood. A single-light window is on the right, and a two-panelled door with a cusped and pointed fanlight mirroring the other ground floor windows is located on the left. Three 20th-century plate glass windows are positioned to the right of the central projecting feature, alongside a two-light 20th-century casement on the left.

A dairy projects slightly forward to the far right with a single storey. It features a three-light window matching that of the main house's ground floor, and a rectangular stone lattice work panel above. A former cottage, now a store, projects slightly from the left-hand side, with a gable end facing forward. The ground floor window here matches that of the main house's ground floor, and a two-light metal casement sits above. The facade between the house, dairy, and cottage is characterised by pilasters at regular intervals and small blind windows with curved and stepped upper corners between each pilaster. Circular ventilation holes are visible in the blind windows on the left side of the house. A lean-to roof extends behind a wall linking the house and dairy on the right. The dairy has a pyramidal roof with a parapet featuring pointed merlons. There are stone minarets at four corners with domed tops and rosette decoration; one rear left minaret is possibly a chimney. A central wooden minaret features stone finials at the corners.

The interior of the dairy contains an octagonal central marble table with a stone statue of a woman within an octagonal bowl. The walls are tiled to ceiling height with simple painted decoration at the margins.