Description

HODNET C.P. LOSTFORD LANE (North-east SJ 63 SW side) 2/76 Lostford Hall - GV II

Farmhouse. Late C17 and early to mid-C18, incorporating probably earlier core. Late C20 alterations. Red brick (C17 English bond) with C17 grey sandstone ashlar dressings. 2-span plain tile roof. 2 cell baffle-entry plan. 2 storeys over basement. South front: plinth, flush quoins to right, toothed brick string course, toothed-brick eaves cornice and parapeted gable ends with stone copings (moulded to right) and moulded stone kneelers. Roughly central brick ridge stack. 2- window front; C19 three-light wooden casements. Roughly-central blocked small segmental-headed first-floor window with C20 stone tympanum. Ground-floor C20 metal French casements to right flanked by (and partly obscuring to left ) a pair of blocked C17 segmental-headed windows with C20 stone tympana. C18 brick porch just off-centre to left; parapeted gable with stone coping and moulded stone kneelers; 6-panelled door (upper 4 panels glazed) with moulded architrave and depressed-arched radial fanlight. Nail-studded boarded basement door at rear. Kitchen wing adjoining to north-west with reused timber framing at rear, refronted in C20 brick. 2 storeys with lateral stack at rear. Interior of house: left-hand ground-floor front room with pair of chamfered ceiling beams and large open fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel. First-floor chamfered beams. Late C17 staircase at rear: dog-leg with winders; closed string with cyma recta moulding, barleysugar twisted balusters, moulded handrail and square newel posts. The house appears to have begun as a one-cell end lobby-entry plan building (see beams and fireplace) which was extended to the east in the late C17. The earlier part (probably timber framed) then appears to have been rebuilt in brick in the C18 (see straight joint to right of porch between English bond and Flemish bond brickwork).

Listing NGR: SJ6268732029

External Links

• Wikidata Q26648375

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