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Collaton Farmhouse 383890

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.596193 50.428517,-3.596193 50.428535,-3.596252...
• entry-date: 1993-10-07
• listed-building: 1195214
• name: Collaton Farmhouse
• notes: Farmhouse, now house. Late 1840s/early 1850s. Simplified Tudor style. MATERIALS: Local red breccia rubble; slate roof; stacks with brick shafts. PLAN: Double-depth U-plan, facing west, high above and overlooking a planned farmyard. South cross-wing contains kitchen and dining room, with service stair; north cross-wing with parlour and main stair, service rooms to rear of main block behind axial corridor. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 1:2:2-bay garden (west) front, the cross-wings gabled to the front, the main block in the centre with 2 gabled first-floor windows is open on the ground floor forming a 3-bay verandah on posts with pitched stone paving. Original windows are 2 and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with moulded mullions and small panes, the ground-floor windows with segmental heads. First floor window left and ground-floor window right have been replaced with later C19 or early C20 3 over 3-pane sashes. The right return (side of the south cross-wing) has 2 gabled first-floor windows with original fenestration, a massive projecting shouldered lateral stack to the left, a wide timber kitchen door. Kitchen window to right reglazed with a C20 timber plate-glass window. The rear (east) elevation is consists of the gable end of the S cross-wing to the left and the main block to the right which has a gabled first-floor window and large gable at the right end. Massive projecting shouldered kitchen stack to wing. 2 original first-floor windows. The ground floor has a slated pentice, partly infilled with concrete block and 2 doorways into the house. The north elevation, facing the road, has a stair window. INTERIOR: Retains one 1870s white marble chimney-piece, some flag floors; original joinery including doors, shutters and 2 stout stick baluster staircases. Kitchen fireplace retains bread oven with iron door. One of a group with associated planned farmyard. Listing NGR: SX8671759947
• reference: 383890
• start-date: 1993-10-07