farm house — Oilgate

Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a cruciform plan originally five-bay single-storey on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak; five-bay full-height rear (west) elevation centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch abutting shopfront. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1948. Resold, 1969. Resold, 1976. Closed, 1989. Now disused. Hipped slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic witgh clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, central rooflight to front (east) pitch, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered battered wall to front (east) elevation with rendered battered buttress; rendered surface finish (remainder) with rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening in camber- or segmental-headed recess. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Segmental-headed central door opening to rear (west) elevation with cut-granite step threshold, timber doorcase with panelled pilasters supporting iron-covered cornice on "Acanthus"-detailed fluted consoles, and moulded rendered surround framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set perpendicular to road on a corner site with rear (west) elevation fronting on to road.