Stoke Farm House And Attached Garden Wall Extending Northwards And Then Eastwards

ST72NW STOKE TRISTER CP

4/117 Stoke Farm House (also know as Manor Farmhouse), and attached garden wall extending Northwards and then Eastwards.

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• II

Manor house. C16 origins much altered and extended in C20. Local stone cut and squared, with ashlar dressings; plain clay tiled roof over stone slate base courses between coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. East elevation of 2 storeys, 5 bays. Plinth, offset full height corner buttress, with another between bays 3 and 4: hollow chamfer-mullioned windows without labels to bay 1 both levels and upper bay 3, of two 4-centred arched heads with incised spandrils, that to lower bay 1 has external iron grille; remainder of windows late C20 casements; projecting gabled porch to bay 4 of uncertain date, having plain 4-centred arch and old inner boarded door in modern frame. Low in the North gable wall are 2 reserve- chamfered single-light windows. In South gable two C16 windows at first floor level divided by projecting chimney stacks. Attached garden wall incorporates base of the tower of the medieval parish church, gutted by fire early C19, in Northwards length: in the East return a well-moulded chamfered arched doorway which could be reused from either church or manor house. Aquired c1547 by the Earl of Pembroke -sold 1602 - : an engraving of the house then exists at Wilton House. (Historical Note of House, unpublished, Anon).

Listing NGR: ST7417228773