Flatts Farmhouse, Garden Walls And Railings

CARLTON TOWN VILLAGE STREET SE 0684-0784 (north side) 16/83 Flatts Farmhouse, garden walls and railings 13.2.67 GV II

Farmhouse, garden walls and railings. Early - mid C18 house, with earlier origins; C19 railings. Coursed rubble, stone slate roof; cast-iron railings. House: 2 storeys with rear 2-storey outshut, 2:1 bays. Left 2 bays: quoins; central part-glazed 4-panel door in raised-quoin surround with wooden canopy supported on wrought-iron brackets; above door a large triangular-headed ashlar panel with inscription, dated 1861, commemorating Henry Constantine, the Coverdale Bard; 3-light flat-faced mullion windows in ashlar architraves; shaped kneeler and ashlar coping to left; end stacks, that to left corniced. To right, bay slightly recessed; quoins to right; 16-pane sash windows in flush ashlar surrounds; end stack to right. Left return, in outshut: on each floor the surround of a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window. In front of house, swept side walls of garden of coursed rubble with slab coping; along front of garden, low ashlar round-arched base supporting railings with fleurs-de-lys finials and central gate; chamfered rusticated ashlar gate piers and terminals of side walls with pyramidal caps. Henry Constantine was a prosperous landowner, Coverdale's overseer for rates and tithes, and the founder of several charities. He had the inscription on the house put up himself, and died in 1869 aged 72. The Dalesman, vol 47, no 11 (February 1986), pp 947-8.

Listing NGR: SE0634084623