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farm house — GRAYROBIN

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farm house — GRAYROBIN
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Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1779, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch; four-bay single-storey rear (west) elevation. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Hipped oat thatch roof overhanging lean-to roofs to window openings to dormer attic with chicken wire-covered exposed wire stretchers to ridge having exposed hazel scallops, rendered off-central chimney stack having chamfered stringcourse below chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls with limewashed lime rendered buttress to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with limewashed concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including lintels framing two-over-two (ground floor) or three-over-six (dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes with two-over-two timber sash windows to gables to side elevations. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings including lintels framing two-over-two (north) or one-over-one (south) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to lane with limewashed piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting iron gate.

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