East Bank Farmhouse

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SUNK ISLAND EAST BANK ROAD TA 21 NE (south-east side) 10/82 East Bank Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. 1855 by S S Teulon for the Crown Commissioners. Banded brown and orange brick in Flemish bond, partly-rendered to rear wing. Ashlar dressings, mostly painted. Concrete tile roof. L-shaped on plan: 2-room, central entrance-hall south front, double-depth wing to rear right with outhouse range adjoining, entrance porch to rear left. South front: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows; asymmetrical, with canted bay window to left and projecting gabled wing to right. Chamfered brick plinth with ashlar angle blocks to bay window. 2 steps to recessed segmental-pointed board door with strap hinges in double-chamfered brick reveal with ashlar head to outer order beneath rubbed-brick arch. Ground-floor bay window to left has quoined ashlar surround, 3-light mullion-and-transom window to front and single-light windows to sides, with chamfered mullions and reveal with broach stops. Wing to right has 4-light mullion-and-transom window beneath segmental brick arch with flush brick key. First floor: similar 3-light window beneath segmental arches, that to left beneath gable with yellow brick lozenge panel, that to right beneath recessed pointed-arch panel with herringbone brick infill. All windows, apart from bay window, have painted sills and chamfered mullions with broach stops in chamfered brick reveals. Stepped eaves, tumbled-in brick to gables. Partly-projecting end stacks with tumbled-in brick to offsets and square pots. Left return, forming west entrance front: gabled range to right with narrow gabled full-height entrance porch adjoining on left, 2-window wing set back to left. Porch: diagonal buttress with tumbled brick offsets, double-chamfered entrance with pointed outer order and segmental-pointed inner order with ashlar arch supporting relief tablet bearing crown, royal cypher and date in quatrefoil panel; half-glazed Gothic-panelled inner door in similar double-chamfered pointed reveal; first-floor cross window, tumbled-in brick to gable; single- light ground-floor window to left return and pointed brick arch of 3 orders supporting corbelled-out first-floor section across angle to rear. Range to left: pair of ground-floor cross windows; first-floor cross window to right beneath raised eaves, narrow single-light window and 3-light window beneath gable with tumbled-in brick to left. Truncated projecting end stack corbelled-out to left gable. Single-storey, 3-bay outhouse range to left with verandah supported on chamfered wooden piers and arch braces with pierced trefoils. Right return has 3 first-floor windows: projecting central section with 5-light ground-floor window, 4-light window to right; 2- and 3-light first-floor windows that to right beneath raised eaves half- All except 2-light windows, mullioned and transomed, Interior contains open well staircase with closed string, moulded handrail, chamfered newel post and Gorhinic-style splat balusters withpierced trefoils and quaterfoils; panelled doors in architraves. One of a series of mid C19 Crown estate buildings by Teulon. see item 6/76 for sources.

Listing NGR: TA2929717759

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Sources

Books and journals
Allison, K J, The Victoria History of the County of York: East Riding, (1984), 135-9
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 351-2

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