Description

SUTTON-UNDER-WHITESTONECLIFFE MAIN STREET SE 48 SE (NORTH SIDE, OFF ) 6/39 LOW CLEAVES - II Farmhouse. Mid C18, added to and altered c1800. Red and pink brick in English garden wall bond with coursed squared stone to rear and to left return; pantile roof. 2 Storeys, 1:2 bays, the left bay a taller addition. The two right-hand bays have, on left, steps up to door which has an upper, round-arched, glazed panel with Gothic glazing bars and wooden surround with fluted pilasters and entablature; on right, a 16-pane sash with glazing bars, 2-panel shutters and stone lintel; lst-floor 2-course band and two 12-pane side-sliding sashes with stone cills; stepped and dentilled eaves; rebuilt stack at right end. Left-hand bay has a large 16-pane sash with glazing bars, flush wood architrave and panelled shutters below a sash with glazing bars and stone cill; stepped and dentilled eaves; renewed brick end stacks. Rear: herringbone-tooled quoins to right end. Right-hand bay has a small side-sliding sash to ground floor and a similar, larger, 12-pane window above. Similar lst-floor windows flank the tall, round-arched stair window containing a sash with glazing bars which is in the centre of the left-hand bays, and there is another to ground floor left under tripartite lintel with a C20 lean-to porch to right. Later brick stack at left corner. Interior: dog-leg open-string stair with ramped handrail, plain balusters and gun-barrel type newel. Left-hand room has 2 good 6-panel doors with architraves, a wall cupboard, a decorative frieze and moulded dentilled cornice. Right-hand room has a good cast-iron basket grate, the fireplace surround having a moulded edge. Deeds held by the occupants record that there was a building here in 1643. There is evidence of a former brick-walled building to the right of the house.

Listing NGR: SE4955883180

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