Building record 0100903000 - CRAFTON FARMHOUSE

Grade II. House. Late C16-C17 altered C17, C19 extensions to rear. Timber frame with brick infill, C20 brick plinth and old tile roof. Chimney with grouped shafts of thin brick between left bays, external stack of similar brick with finely moulded base to right. 2 storeys with blocked openings to attic,and first floor of left bays jettied on beam ends. 3 main bays all gabled to front, that to right possibly of slightly later build and with ground floor rebuilt in brick. Old 3-light leaded casements to ground floor, C20 3-light barred wooden casements to first floor. Small gable between left bays has moulded brick oval panel with keyblocks and barred wooden window to first floor, formerly with sundial below, now missing. Panelled door with rectangular fanlight to right of second main bay. Gateway to left has old tile roof and large double weatherboard doors. Range of stables attached to left of gateway are C19 and are of brick and weatherboard with steeply pitched tiled roofs. Range to rear of house, forming L-plan, is of C19 brick, possibly incorporating parts of an earlier building, and has later C19 additions. Interior: ground floor room to left has stop-chamfered joists; room to centre of first floor has moulded spine beam on bracket dated 1586, the date probably not original. Exterior of house also has brick dated JR 162? RCHM II p. 336-7 Mon. 15 (Wing) (B8).