21 Fromefield

House. C17 with C19 and C20 alterations and additions.

MATERIALS: constructed of roughly coursed local rubble stone, with brick stacks. The C19 façade to the principal elevation is rendered. The roof is covered in Roman tiles.

PLAN: originally a two-storey single-pile house, with a two-room plan and a central staircase to the rear. Mid-to late C17 two-storey rear wing; the additional two-storey and one-storey ranges to the rear are mid-to late C19.

EXTERIOR: the three-bay principal (west) elevation is an early to mid-C19 re-fronting with a raised parapet wall; behind are two late C19 dormer windows each with a hipped roof and finial. The symmetrical frontage with gable end stacks comprises a central six-panel door (the upper two panels are glazed) beneath a flat hood supported on corbels, and flanked by sixteen-pane hornless sash windows; that to the ground-floor left has been replaced with a plain glass shop window beneath a hoodmould. To the side (north) elevation is a ground-floor shop window and set-back entrance to the shop, and to the first floor is a blocked, early to mid-C17, two-light, flat-faced stone mullion window set beneath a stone hoodmould with label stops. The slightly set-forward two-storey rear wing has a truncated gable end stack and two mid-to late C17 cross windows with ovolo mullions and transoms set beneath hoodmoulds with label stops. The rear (east) elevation has a central gabled bay forming the rear stair tower. To the left is a C19 two-storey gabled wing, and to the centre is a single-storey gabled addition that appears to be late C19.

INTERIOR: not inspected.