Description

SE 7604-7704 EPWORTH STATION ROAD
(south-west side)

19/94 No 31 (Skipwith House)
and No 35 (Home
Farmhouse)

GV II

House, now 2 dwellings. Mid C18 with later C18 - early C19 addition to
south; C19 - C20 subdivision and unsympathetic C20 alterations to west
front. Yellow-brown brick in Flemish bond with scored pointing to east
front (Skipwith House); cement rendered to north gable end and west front
(Home Farmhouse). Pantile roof to east front; concrete tiles to west front.
Double-depth plan, with 2-room, central entrance-hall east and west fronts,
with double-depth single-room addition to south. East front: 2 storeys, 5
bays; symmetrical, with lower 2-storey, 2-bay addition set back to left.
Late C19 - early C20 flat-roofed trellised wooden porch over original C18
door with inserted C19 glazing over 2 fielded-panels, beneath 3-pane
overlight. 12-pane sashes, in flush wooden architraves, with sills beneath
stucco flat arches, most windows C20 replacements. 3-course brick first-
floor band with upper course projecting, mutilated to far right (position of
former addition). Stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice. Double-span roof
with stone-coped gables and shaped kneelers. Corniced end stacks. Left
addition has twin full-height basket-arched panels with single similar
sashes to ground and first floors, stone-coped gable with shaped kneelers.
West front has C20 doors and windows, similar brick eaves cornice, gable
details and end stacks. Interior of Skipwith House has original open-well
staircase with ramped and wreathed corniced handrail, column-on-vase
balusters and newel posts with round knops, profiled cheek-pieces; round-
headed alcove cupboard to ground floor left with beaded-panel doors in
reeded architrave; fielded-panel shutters and 6-fielded-panel doors in
architraves throughout, some with L and H hinges. Interior of Home
Farmhouse altered in C20. Adjoining ranges to south are not of special
interest.

Listing NGR: SE7747904442

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26364341

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Recommended Books

• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990