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COLSTERWORTH HIGH STREET SK 92 SW (east side) 8/9 Home Farm House 24.9.79 G.V. II Farmhouse, formerly also an inn. 1650, 1778, with C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed and squared limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. Pantile roofs with raised stone coped gables, kneelers and rolled ridges. 2 gable and single axial moulded ashlar stacks with pairs of shafts and cornices, and a further ridge stack with brick shaft. L-plan. 2 storey, with attics to rear wing, irregular 3 bay front. The left hand part is in squared rubble and separately gabled with an inscribed datestone "TT 1778". The C17 2 bay right hand range is in coursed rubble. Large C19 gabled porch with half glazed door, to the right an adjacent rectangular bay window and a plain sash with segmental head and keystone. To first floor a plain sash and pair of plain sashes under timber lintels. In the right hand gable a datestone inscribed "HVM 1650". The C18 rear wing has a C20 lean-to porch flanked by single plain sashes. To first floor are 3 similar windows, all having cambered stone lintels with keystones, and to the roof a pair of gabled dormers with C20 top hung windows. Interior. Ground floor has C17 moulded beam, some C18 dado panelling and cupboard with semi-circular head. First floor has early C18 full height panelling with cornice. The C18 wing has a moulded plaster cornice and beams. The C17 roof is pegged oak, alternate staggered butt purlin and clasped purlin construction and the C18 roof is staggered butt purlin. Listing NGR: SK9302623948

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