Cote Syke Farmhouse

FELLISCLIFFE GREYSTON PLAIN LANE SE 25 NW (west side, off)

3/7 Cote Syke Farmhouse

• II

House. Dated 1702 and 1735 with mid C20 restoration. Coursed squared gritstone, purple slate roof to main range, graduated stone slates to bay on right. 2-storey, 3-bay main range, single-storey bay to right. Quoins. Main range: C20 board door right in moulded quoined surround with stepped moulding to lintel and inscription "E R I 1702", cornice over. Recessed chamfered mullion windows throughout, of 4 and 6 lights with hoodmoulds to ground floor; of 4, 3 and 3 lights to first floor with an additional single- light window first floor over door in a stone architrave. Below this window a stone plaque with the inscription:

"17 S 35" (William and Susannah Simpson), W S "Omniam credem diem / tibi Diluxisse Supre - / mum. Grata Superv - / enient quae non ope - / rabitir hora". Bulbous kneeler and gable coping to right, raised verge with bulbous kneeler and coping to left; large corniced projecting stack left, banded stack right. Single-storey bay: board door with chamfered quoins to right jamb, the chamfer continued across the lintel as an ogee curve, the left jamb probably cut back. 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window to right; inserted 3-light window in right return. Interior: main range: the main living room ground floor right has cyma- moulded chamfer stops to beams and former inglenook fireplace to right; former parlour left - a fine bolection-moulded fireplace and a similar fine surround in the room above. The 1735 date probably relates to the insertion of the fireplaces in the left gable, alterations to the main fireplace against the right gable and the insertion of the window with architrave.

Listing NGR: SE2494457852