East Lounston Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating to the 17th century, with later additions to the rear and against the right-hand gable, the building is constructed of roughcast stone, likely with some cob in the upper storey. It has a thatched roof, half-hipped at the left-hand end, topped by late 19th-century brick chimneystacks on the right-hand gable and along the ridge, slightly offset to the left. The original plan comprised three rooms and a through-passage, with the left-hand room at the upper end serving as a farm store room and displaying no evidence of internal access. The farmhouse is two storeys high, with single-storey lean-to additions. The front has four windows. Windows in the three right-hand bays are 19th-century wooden casements: ground-floor windows have six panes per light, while those on the second storey have three. The doorway in the second bay from the right has a plank door with an inserted window, beneath a 20th-century brick porch. A plank door to the store room is located in the left-hand bay of the ground storey; this door features wrought-iron strap-hinges with spade-shaped terminals, set in an old frame with chamfered jambs. Above this, on the second storey, is an unglazed two-light wooden mullioned window, likely dating to the late 18th or early 19th century. The interior retains few exposed early features, although they likely exist beneath the plaster. The right-hand ground-floor room has a chamfered cross-beam with a straight-cut stop. An old plank door, originally the back door and now within a lean-to addition at the rear of the through-passage, has wrought-iron strap-hinges with spade-shaped terminals. The store room, separated from the domestic area by a stone wall, features a longitudinal chamfered upper floor beam; some of the joists, turned from their original position, are chamfered with step-stops. This room never appeared to have a fireplace. The upper storey and roof structure were not inspected.