Farwell House and East Farwell

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STOKE FLEMING RECTORY LANE SX84NE STOKE FLEMING 6/162 Farewell House and East Farewell

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Rectory, now a private house in 2 occupations. Built in 1834 for the Rev. A. Farwell, extended later in C19, divided into 2 houses in C20. Stuccoed, probably stone rubble. Twin-span slate roof with gabled ends and deep eaves with paired brackets to the soffit; the gable end of the left hand cross-wing has shaped bargeboards. Rendered axial and gable end stacks with grouped octagonal shafts. Plan: Double depth plan; the original house had an almost square plan with 2 principal rooms at the front, a central entrance, or more likely an entrance on the left side into the large stairhall behind the left hand room. Later in the C19 the house was extended by the addition of 2 rooms on the left side, the front room has a canted bay overlooking the front garden and a room at the back with an axial passage between linking the stair hall to the new entrance on the left side of the house. In the C20 the house was subdivided, the two right hand rooms became East Farwell and the remainder of the house is occupied by Farwell House. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3:3 bay south front. The right hand 3 bay range is the original house. It has a symmetrical front with early C19 sashes, 12 panes on the first floor and large 15-pane sashes on the ground floor with low sills. Blocked or blind central doorway. To the left a slightly projecting gable-ended cross-wing with shaped barge boards and a large 2-storey canted bay with a hipped slate roof, 3 sashes without glazing bars on the first floor and French casements on the ground floor. The left hand side of the cross-wing has an asymmetrical arrangement of sashes and blind windows and a C20 glazed and panellel door with a rectangular overlight. Interior: Only Farwell House was inspected inside. It has a large stairwell lit by a lantern and a fine early C19 imperial staircase, its open-string has fretted scroll tread ends and the balustrade has stick balusters and a moulded mahogany handrail ramped up to turned column newels and wreathed over the curtail. The hall and front rooms have moulded plaster ceiling cornices but the chimneypieces have been replaced. Most of the internal joinery such as panelled doors appears to be intact. The Rectory was built by the Rev. A. Farwell, who had 71 acres of glebe and a "well wooded lawn of seven acres" (White's). Source: White's Directory 1850.

Listing NGR: SX8611448598

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Sources

Books and journals
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1850)

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