Home Farmhouse

DOWNHOLME DOWNHOLME SE 19 NW 4/21 Home Farmhouse II Farmhouse. C17, with later alterations. Rubble with ashlar dressings, artificial slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Quoins. Central gabled porch with C20 door, in front of board door in chamfered ashlar surround with triangular soffit to lintel. Ground floor windows: C20 casement below hoodmould; 2-light chamfered mullion window with vertical iron bars and leaded lights below dripmould; casement below hoodmould; 4- pane sash below dripmould. First floor: C20 casement windows. Kneelers carved with female heads. Ashlar copings. Ashlar stacks at ends and between bays 2 and 3. Rear: later single-storey projecting wing with blocked fire window surrounds, some with trefoil heads, and inside it, chamfered ashlar doorway with triangular soffit to lintel; kneelers carved with female heads. Left return: in gable, blocked opening with decorative surround. At top and bottom, diaper moulding, with coats of arms, and small heads at bottom corners; at sides, large bead and reel moulding. On either side at top, corbels with female and male heads. Decorative details may have been brought from Downholme Hall, a medieval building now in ruins (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SE1135197887