Stokenhill Farmhouse

SO 80 NW WHITESHILL -

3/223 Stokenhill Farmhouse

28.6.60 II

Detached farmhouse. Dated 1685 with 1717 porch. Coursed, squared and dressed rubble limestone, coursed rubble to rear; ashlar and rendered chimneys; concrete tile roof. Two-storey with attic and cellar; 2-storey porch. South front: 2 full gables with fenestration in line below, 2 + 2-light to ground floor with king mullions, 3-light to upper floor, 2-light to attic with oval windows above. All are casements with recessed chamfered mullions and hoodmoulds, single-lights set adjacent to porch, those to ground floor with hoodmould linking across from main window. Two- light opening and doorway to cellar in plinth to left. Central gabled porch with cambered arch to deep stone lintel, drip course above and moulded keyed oval window. Dated sundial; very small side window openings on upper floor. Stone porch seats. Original folding wide plank studded door. Ends: full gables with fenestration below as to front. Rear: 2 gables, each with projecting chimney, left with rendered shaft, right with paired diagonal shafts having linking cap with billeted moulding. Central C20 lean-to with 2-light casement above. Interior: two square rooms to each floor, smaller room between at rear. Central staircase with winders has raised coffin door at foot. Stepped beam chamfer stops. Good contemporary fireplaces to principal rooms, one to ground floor with dated iron fireback having 3 round arched smoke outlets. Moulded cornice mantelshelfs to upper floor fireplaces. Extended collar truss roof structure. A good example of this late C17 house type with many surviving original features, same revealed during recent restoration. Contemporary privy to west (q.v.). (Illustrated in N.M. Herbert, 'Stroud' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp. 99-145)

Listing NGR: SO8456806942