| Description | Maythorne Farm, Tong. Mid 17th century stone house enlarged in the mid to late 18th century.
'Farmhouse of C17 origin enlarged mid to late C18. Coursed gritstone to original part, the additions in regular sandstone 'brick'. Stone slate roof. Flush quoins. Three light square mullion windows in squared surrounds. Rear outshut retains 2 light, originally 4 light chamfered mullion windows in deeply splayed reveal. Formerly had stone external staircase, rebuilt in brick. The interior has been modernised, beams boxed in'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 09/08/1983. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1132904. Web site accessed 07/10/2013).
Maythorne Farm was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Colum Giles in 1980 as part of the WYAS/RCHME Rural Houses Survey. The photographic images and sketch plan produced by the assessment are held by WYAAS (Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1980). The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'This is a stone house, probably dating from the mid 17th century. It is of two storeys, faces south and is built of coursed rubble masonry, quoined at the angles. All details on the south front are modern, but at the rear, where an outshut supplements the main span, there are some original windows; these have or had recessed splayed mullions.
The house has a two cell plan, with housebody to the west and parlour to the east. It is not clear where the original entry was sited; it may have been on the west gable wall, to be obscured by later additions; or it may have been at the south west angle, where a door of 19th century date has been made into a window. The latter is, perhaps, the more likely, and if this is so, the original plan had an end lobby entrance, the door opening against the heck of the fire hood heating the housebody. The hood has been removed, but the spine beam breaks on the line of its bressumer. The parlour to the east is featureless; it is likely that it was heated originally, for the east gable stack is of stone and appears to be contemporary.
The rear of the house gave a number of service rooms and probably the original stair.
In the late 18th or early 19th century a cell was added to the west, probably designed to provide a kitchen; it has a large stack built against the former gable wall. To the west beyond this room a further block was added, stone to the south and brick to the west and north. It is probably of early 19th century date'.
(Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1980. 'Maythorne Farm, Tong'). |