farm house — Queensborough

Detached T-plan two-storey house comprising three-bay south block with gable-fronted south porch, built c. 1840, attached to south gable of multiple-bay earlier block and having lean-to extension to north c. 1920. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles; red brick corbelled chimneystacks, chimneystack to north house; painted carved timber bargeboards to porch, painted timber needle finial; cast-iron gutters on corbelled brick eaves course, gutters to north bracketed to painted timber eaves board, cast-iron downpipes; corrugated-iron roof, cement coping to lean-to extension. Unpainted roughcast-rendered walling, smooth rendered plinth with vents to south, painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling to porch, cast-iron wall ties to north. Square-headed window openings, unpainted smooth rendered soffits and reveals, tooled stone sills, painted timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two panes with horns to south, tripartite windows to ground floor south elevation and sides of porch, one-over-one to south elevation porch, exposed case one-over-one to ground floor north, six-over-six to first floor north. Square-headed door opening to porch, painted timber jambs and cornice, painted timber door with moulded bottom panels and glass top panels, plain glazed fanlight; tiled floor to porch, inner square-headed pedimented door opening with painted timber panelled pilasters, painted timber panelled door, timber tracery overlight; square-headed door opening to east elevation north, corrugated-iron canopy on timber brackets, smooth rendered soffit and reveals, painted timber panelled door with moulded bottom panels and glass top panels; square-headed opening to east elevation north, gauged brick flat-arched lintel, painted timber vertically-sheeted double doors. Corrugated-iron lean-to shed and attached stone outbuilding with corrugated-iron roof to north, square-headed openings with painted timber vertically-sheeted doors. Set within own grounds, garden to south, woodlands to north and east; north yard bounded by partially rendered coursed stone wall with segmental-headed gateway, painted timber vertically-sheeted door; bounded to south by unpainted smooth rendered wall, square piers with pyramidal caps, wrought-iron gates.