Colhayes Farmhouse Including Buildings Round the Courtyard to the North

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BUCKERELL SY 19 NW

7/106 Colhayes Farmhouse including - buildings round the courtyard to the north II

Farmhouse and 3 ranges of farmbuildings. Circa 1840. Local flint rubble with red brick and freestone dressings; slate roofs, gabled at ends with deep eaves to the house; 2 rear lateral brick stacks to the house, brick end stack to kitchen wing, brick stacks to 2 of the farmbuildings. Plan: A courtyard arrangement. The south-facing house has a service crosswing at the east end, forming a T plan. An agricultural building adjoins the north end of the wing and this, with a north and west range of agricultural buildings - a shippon to the north and a 2 storey range with stacks to the west - forms an enclosed courtyard with entrances through doorways on the west side and east side and a second east side entrance through the east range. Exterior: 2 storeys to the house. Symmetrical 3-bay south front plus the gabled end of the crosswing at the right. Deep eaves with paired brackets, the eaves soffit retaining its plaster in some places, the brick quoins and dressings to the embrasurers rendered in imitation of rusticated ashlar dressings. Central original panelled front door with a glazed overlight with diamond glazing bars and a flat porch canopy on shaped brackets. Set of original 12-pane sashes. The gable end of the crosswing to the right has a first floor 12-pane sash and a blocked or false window below, painted in imitation of a sash. A stone shield in the gable may have carried a date but this is illegible. The left gable end of the house retains curly bargeboards to the verges and 2 12-pane sash windows. The right return of the crosswing is 3 bays, the windows with brick dressings and glazed with C20 small-pane timber casements, those on the ground floor slightly reduced in size, first floor window left blind or blocked and painted to imitate the rest. The rear elevation of the house, backing on to the courtyard, is gabled to the left and right, associated with the lateral stacks, with a round-headed stair window which is glazed as a sash with margin panes. Original panelled back door into the courtyard from the crosswing. The farmbuildings are equally unspoiled with their original openings intact. The east range is lofted and 3-bay to the east (outer) elevation with a doorway to the left which leads through the building into the courtyard. All the openings on the elevation have cut stone dressings. Unglazed 3-light timber mullioned windows, first floor window left blocked or false and painted in imitation of the others. On the courtyard side this building has an archway into the courtyard side this building has an archway into the courtyard to the right, and a 3-light unglazed mullioned ground floor window. A slated pentice extends the length of the range, extending across the rear door of the house to the right and a doorway through a wall to the left. The north range, which is single-storey has 5 rear (north) doorways with segmental arches and brick dressings. On the courtyard side the building, which has a stack at the east end, has a doorway from the courtyard to the right. The west range is 2 storeys with 2 lateral stacks on the west (outer) side. It has a loft opening on the west wall, 2 blocked or false windows on the left (south) return and, on the courtyard side, a symmetrical 3-bay east elevation with a central door and 2-light unglazed windows. A short section wall with an original doorway links this building to the house. The courtyard retains its pitched stone paving, the house retains its flint rubble garden wall to the south and a gateway with piers with freestone caps, one cap carved with the letters of the alphabet. Interior: A part from the replacement of one chimney-piece the interior of the house is completely unspoiled, with original joinery, a stick baluster stair facing the front door and a marble chimney-piece and plaster cornice in the left hand room in the main range. The crosswing is divided between service to the front (south) and a large farm kitchen to the rear which retains its original massive fireplace with bread oven and a fine fixed settle which rises to the ceiling. A service stair rises from the kitchen. A small C19 farm complex in a remarkably complete state of preservation.

Listing NGR: SY1204699418

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