Mitton Farmhouse

TEWKESBURY

SO93SW OLD MANOR LANE, Mitton 859-1/3/381 (South side) 27/07/73 Mitton Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: BREDON ROAD, Mitton Mitton Farmhouse)

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Large detached house, formerly farmhouse. Date 1653 on fireback seems appropriate, windows altered C20. English bond brickwork, some stone; stone slate roofs, N wing with concrete replacements, but inner slopes in tile. PLAN: original layout was 2-room cross passage L-plan, but wing added at N end to give U-plan; wing possibly on earlier work, which has good stonework in gable wall. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attic ; all windows to main front, and returns both ends, are 4-light multi-pane casements, with transom at ground floor and set to wide splayed brick voussoirs, C20 replacements. Main (W) front 4-windowed, with blank recesses at either end both floors, and middle first floor above central C20 brick porch over C19 door. 3-course mid string on moulded bottom course is stepped up at each of blank panels. Modillion eaves to hipped roof, returned to original L-plan. Right return (S) identical to front, but no central door; left return has 1 window, flanked each side by blank recesses, then a set-back gabled section with two 2-light gabled dormers above three 3-light, alternating with blank recesses and to brick string, all as main facade. Here the splayed voussoirs are tumbled at the centre. At back the left gable is hipped, in one bay with one casement above French doors; N wing is gabled, with ground floor in large squared coursed limestone, 2-windowed, 2-light casements to segmental heads. Further door and various windows in set-back centre unit. 2 large stacks with 5 connected flues, and one with 2 flues. INTERIOR has former 2 rooms interconnected, nibs of passage wall only remaining. Right room has C17 panelling to 3 walls, stripped pine C18 shutters, large central transverse and one lateral beam; left room with very fine stone Jacobean-style fireplace and overmantel, with strapwork, 2 supporter figures flanking openings, and 3 in overmantel. Fireback has incised '1653 TLC'. 3 heavy stopped-chamfer transverse beams stopped to very heavy lateral full width above fireplace; shutters as right room. Back of S wing has large room with C18 imported moulded wood fire surround, 2-compartment ceiling to moulded cornice and frieze. 2 basement rooms connected through brick tunnel vault, stone floors.

Listing NGR: SO9036633851