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SE 91 NW WINTERTON ERMINE STREET
(west side)
5/80 Eastfield Farmhouse
and adjoining stable/
granary II
Farmhouse and adjoining stable/granary. Farmhouse 1770-72 for John, Earl
Mexborough, with C19 raising of rear wing, and mid Cl9 stable/granary range to
south. House of banded squared limestone with brick dressings and chimneys;
brick to raised section of rear wing. Stable/granary has west courtyard front
of squared limestone with brick dressings, and brick to east side. Pantile
roofs throughout. House is T-shaped on plan, with a two-room central entrance-
hall east front and a two-room kitchen wing to the rear incorporating a stable
at the west end and a dairy outshut on the north side; adjoining stable/granary
range contains a single stall flanked by a tack room on the south side and a
through passage on the other side, beside the house. House: 2 storeys, 3 bays;
symmetrical. Stable/granary: single storey with windowless attic, 3 bays to
courtyard side. House: quoins, 4-panel door beneath narrow overlight in plain
wood frame beneath segmental header arch, Long windows to ground floor, shorter
windows to first floor, with narrower window to central bay; all windows with
C19 4-pane sashes in original frames and openings with stone sills beneath
segmental header arches, Plain wooden eaves board. Corniced end stacks.
Stable/granary to left has single pointed-arch doorway to passage beside house,
a row of pipe breathers above left, and a single-flue axial stack. Rear wing of
house has 4 first-floor windows to courtyard front: 2 doors and 2 ground-floor
windows with glazing bars beneath segmental arches to kitchen section on right;
pair of basket-arched doorways to passage and stable to left with quoined brick
surrounds and board doors with strap hinges; first floor has windows beneath
timber lintels, one with a 4-pane sliding sash, the others with later glazing in
original openings. Stable/granary, courtyard front, has 3 pointed-arch doorways
with rounded brick jambs incorporating ashlar hinge mounting blacks, and
original board doors with strap hinges; small 2-pane window to central stable,
2 rows of pipe breathers above. Interior: original details in house include open
well staircase with plain balusters and corniced handrail; panelled shutters,
reveals and window seats to east front; spine beam to ground-floor left room,
exposed joists to kitchen, panelled doors throughout. Stables contain original
floors and fittings. A good and largely unaltered example of a stone-built
'patternbook' enclosure farmhouse, and one of only three listed examples of such
buildings outside a village in the open limestone landscape of South Humberside.
Adjoining ranges of farmbuildings are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: SE9414419737
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