Stoneleigh Farmhouse

ST5126 KINGSDON CP SCHOOL ROAD (North side)

1/104 Stoneleigh Farmhouse

17.4.59

GV II

Detached farmhouse. C17, possibly with earlier fragments and later alterations. Local lias stone cut and squared; thatched roof between stepped coped gables; stone chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays, of which bay 4 is a single bay projecting wing. C20 leaded casement windows under renewed timber lintols, all 2-light except for lower bay 1 and both levels bay 5, which are 3-light; no window to lower bay 2; to lower bay 3 a studded boarded door in heavy frame with C20 open timber and tiled porch. Interior not seen, but reported is a 3-room cross passage plan with variations: the west kitchen has a spiral stair in the north-west corner; remains of 2 ovens and a bacon curing chamber, sundry chamfered beams with stepped runout stops, internal partitions of close slender studs, straw and plaster, probably C18; roof has collar and tie trusses; one truss has a date 1718; from many smoke blackened timbers there are indications of a C18 fire neccessitating major repairs. Extending from the north-west corner a long outbuilding. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1975).

Listing NGR: ST5163926195