Sunley Hill Farmhouse

SE 68 SE WELBURN MOOR LANE (south-west, off)

4/96 Sunley Hill farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Mid C18 with earlier origins; later alteration and extension. Coursed squared limestone; pantile roof; brick stacks, one rebuilt. Centre stairhall plan, one room deep, extending to left; rear outshutm added. 2-storey, 3-window front, with 1½-storey, 2-window range to left. Irregular quoins. Central 6-panel door under rectangular fanlight in Doric pilastered doorcase with entablature and cornice. 16-pane sashes with stone sills, raised surrounds and wedge lintels on either side of door. Three similar windows to first floor. Blocked doorway in lower range, to right of C20 2-light casement with glazing bars. 3-light and 2-light horizontal sliding sashes above. All these openings have heavy, milled lintels. Coped gables and shaped kneelers. End stacks. Interior: open-string staircase with shaped cheekpieces over squared panelling; twined balusters; moulded handrail ramped up to first landing; twined newel posts. Raised and fielded panelled doors open off the stairhall, Raised and fielded panelled window reveals to ground floor rooms. In ground floor room to end left stop- chamfered beam survives from the earlier house.

Listing NGR: SE6816482587