farm house — YOLETOWN (Forth By., Tacumshin ED)

Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. Sold, 1886. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Reroofed, 2001. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed lime rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening into farmhouse with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes centred on six-over-six timber sash windows (half-dormer attic). Set in landscaped grounds with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having shallow domed capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron "farm gate".