Ludney Farmhouse

ST31SE KINGSTONE CP LUDNEY

4/41 Ludney Farmhouse

GV II

Detached farmhouse. Late C18 rebuild of earlier farmhouse, some modification. Ham stone cut and squared; Welsh slate roof with coped gables, of shallow pitch; brick chimney stacks. 'L'-plan; 2 storeys, 3 bays. Casement windows; above, 3-light C18 pattern with rectangular-leaded lights to bays 1 and 2 having iron-framed opening lights, blind window bay 3; below are 4-light horizontal-bar casements: between bays 1 and 2 a boarded door in plain opening, with open ashlar porch having a ball finial to coped gable, a 4-centre outer arch and pointed-arch sidelight: against the east gable, a single storey extension to match, with ball finial to coped gable and 2-light leaded casement: west gable plain. Return wing to match on south-east corner, with 2 bays of the house, then a longer lower 2-storey agricultural building with clay pantiled roof, and single-storey extension on south gable of this: also a lean-to building with Welsh slate roof across the junction of the house wing and the rear building, having casement windows and boarded door in north end. Interior not seen. Farmlands first mentioned here by 1316. In 1728 the farmhouse became part of the Poulatt Estate of Hinton St. George. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST3889112554