Downe House Farmhouse

SESSAY MAIN STREET SE 47 NE (west side) 4/41 Downe House Farmhouse - II Public house, now farmhouse, and attached cottage, now part of house. Mid C19 by G T Andrews. Cottage later C19. Pinkish brick in English garden wall bond (5:1) with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate and pantile roofs. 2 storeys with attic. 3 bays with 2-storey rear outshut to right and rear wing to left with cottage attached Rusticated quoins; raised, quoined, double-chamfered window surrounds; moulded first floor string; eaves cornice. Central bay has full-height gabled porch rising above eaves with: hollow-chamfered, Tudor-arched doorway with 4-panel door (top panels glazed) and cornice; returning; above door, architrave frames brick panel, formally bearing coat of arms; on first floor, tall cross-window with small sash to each light; quatrefoil above. Flanking porch on each floor, a narrow window, transomed on first floor, with sashes. Outer bays each have: a flat-roofed bay window with cross-window to front, transomed side-lights, cornice, parapet, and cornice formed by continuation of first floor string; cross-windows to first floor; gabled dormers above with 4-pane sashes. All gables have raised verges with moulded kneelers, coping. Corniced end stacks with tripled flues, and another cross-ridge stack. Rear: outshut has 4-panel door on right; paired, gabled, half-dormers; wing has pantile roof. Right return: at rear, sashes with glazing bars. Left return: 2-bay wing adjoining house then 1-bay added cottage, each having door, side-sliding sashes to ground floor and sashes with glazing bars under flat brick arches to first floor. Continuation of wing altered and not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SE4568875234