Stagg Mill Farmhouse

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UPLOWMAN ST 01 NW 4/173 Stagg Mill Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse. Late C16 - early C17, maybe earlier origins; throughly modernised in the early C19. Mostly plastered stone rubble with some cob; stone rubble stacks with C19 brick chimneyshafts; slate roof, formerly thatch. Plan and development: L-plan house. The main block is built across the hillslope, its back terraced into it, and it faces east. It has a 4-room plan. At the left (south) end is the kitchen with a projecting rear lateral stack. Between this and the former hall (present dining room) is the main stair and a small unheated room. The hall has a projecting rear lateral stack. At the right (north) end of the main block there are 2 small rooms, one behind the other. The front one has a gable end stack. At the right end a 3-room plan block set at right angles project forward and overlapp only the front corner of the main block. Although the main block was thoroughly refurbished in the C19 the layout appears to be that of a late C16 -early C17 (maybe earlier) 4-room-and-through-passage plan house. The left room is a service end kitchen. Next to it an unheated dairy, and the present stair maybe occupies the site of the passage although the slope of the land to rear suggests that there was no rear doorway. The dining room occupies the former hall and the former inner room has been sub-divided. The stack here is probably secondary. The front wing is a parlour crosswing. Something room is unheated. The larger middle room has a projecting outer lateral stack. In the C19 a staircase was inserted here with a new front doorway. The front end room is a something room and maybe a C19 addition. The house is 2 storeys. Exterior: irregular 5-window front of mostly C19 and C20 casements, the latest without glazing bars. The 2 first floor windows at the left end maybe C18; they have flat-faced mullions and contain rectangular panes of leaded glass, the left one with original ferramenta. The front doorway is left of centre and contains a late C19 door behind a contemporary gabled porch. The wing has a 3-window front of similar C19 and C20 casements and the doorway here contains a C19 6-panel door behind a later gabled porch. The main block roof is gable-ended. The wing is hipped at the front. The rear of the main block contains a couple of single light windows, each a C17 casement reset back to front; one has an ornate wrought iron catch. The rear end of the wing includes a Beerstone plaque inscribed J and AC, 1657. Interior: the main block shows mostly early C19 and C20 detail. The kitchen fireplace, though lined with C19 brick has a C17 chamfered oak lintel. Other early features might survive here under C19 plaster. The rear room of the parlour crosswing has a late C16-early C17 plank-and-muntin screen between it and the C19 stairs inserted into the main parlour. The muntins are chamfered with runoutstops on both sides and it includes a Tudor arch doorway with moulded surround. The ceiling is carried on contemporary 9-panel intersecting beam ceiling, the beams are richly moulded. The panels contain ornamental plasterwork which is probably early C17. Each panel contains floral sprays in the corners and a central motif such as a bird amongst oak leaves or a pegasus. The centre room, the main parlour, has a 4- panel intersecting beam ceiling according to the owner but it is now hidden. The fireplace here is blocked. The roof was not inspected but the owner reports a C19 roof construction throughout.

Listing NGR: ST0080316524

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