Charity Farmhouse

STANTON STANTON VILLAGE SP 0634-0734 11/84 Charity Farmhouse (formerly listed as Charity Farm) 4.7.60 II Former farmhouse, now house. Probably C17, altered C19, enlarged 1922 by and for Sir P. Stott (datestone). Coursed, squared stone: timber-framing with rendered infill; stone slate roof. Three- bay, 1 1/2 storey main section: 3-bay, single storey extension to left, 2-storey cross wing behind. Entrance front: part-height straight joint on right near corner: single-storey canted bay, 3- light casement, hipped roof. Half-glazed door up one stone step, marginal lights, 2 panels below. Three-light stone-mullioned windows. Above, parapet gable on right, ashlar chimney, moulded cap: 3 gabled dormers, each with 3-light casements. Chimney from eaves left end, left gable rendered over timber-framing. To left, lower wing: canted single-storey bay, 3-light mullioned window, hipped roof. Boarded door up 5 stone steps, 4-centred arch, stone lintel. Gabled dormer with 2-light casement; parapet gable left end. Right return, lower part covered by late C20 conservatory, not of special interest. Covers 2-light Perpendicular window said to be from Hailes Abbey. Interior: stone-paved entrance hall, timber-framed cross walls. Wide stone fireplace, timber lintel in room to right: exposed beam and bar-stop chamfered joists. Exposed unchamfered joists room to left. House of Miss E. Wedgwood, visited by J.M. Barrie, Sargent and H.G. Wells. (T. Edwards, in Country Life, 1952)

Listing NGR: SP0715434272