| Keywords: manor architecture building outdoor country house gable roof window roof YALDING HIGH STREET  TQ 6950  (west side)  6/132 Court Lodge and the  Dairy House (formerly  25-7-52 listed under High  Street, North Arm)  GV II*   Farmhouse, now house. Late C17. Chequered red and grey brick to both  elevations and to gable ends, Plain tile roof. Double depth. 2 storeys,  with cellar and two tiers of attics. Chamfered brick plinths. Rendered plat  band. Shallow central break with rendered rusticated quoins. Similar  quoins to outer ends of front elevation. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Roof  gabled to right and left. Brick gable (possibly formerly corniced) over  central break, with ridge only slightly lower than that of main range. Red  and grey brick gable end stacks. Two dormers with moulded wooden cornices,  pedimented gables and leaded two-light casements. Small blocked window  towards apex of central gable with two-light leaded casement with splayed  rubbed brick voussoirs below it. Fire Insurance plaque under cill. Regular  7-window front of slightly recessed leaded wooden cross windows with splayed  rubbed brick voussoirs, and raised painted keystones with cornice breaking  forwards over them; three to central break and two to each side flanking it.  Similar windows to ground floor (left end window on each floor blocked).  Splayed rubbed brick voussoirs to cellar windows under plinth. Central door  of four panels and two top lights, with two-light rectangular fanlight, and  heavy flat corniced hood with moulded pedimented gable, up four steps with  plain iron handrails. Rear elevation: similar, and with similar central  door, but without quoins or cornice, with segmental heads to first-floor,  lower and upper attic windows, and with unpedimented corniced door hood.  1½ storey section: (the Dairy House) to left (south), set back from front  elevation, but of similar date; red and grey brick, partly in Flemish bond,  with gabled plain tile roof, large central brick gable, tall stack adjoining  main range to right, three-light ground-floor casement, and panelled door up  flight of steps to left gable end. Interior: open-well principal staircase  with turned balusters, moulded handrail and closed string, rising to first  floor from rear of entrance hall within right (north) side of central rear  break. Dog-leg service staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail,  rising from cellar to upper attic from lobby within left side of central  rear break. Broad pegged doorway to former principal first-floor room from  landing, and smaller pegged doorways to rear right room and to corridor within  left section of house. Panelled doors. Elliptical brick fireplace with  chamfered bressumer to rear and front right ground-floor rooms and front left  and right first-floor rooms. Large rectangular brick fireplace to front left  ground-floor room, and to front right room in cellar. Broad un-chamfered  cross beam and relatively thin-scantling joists to front left and right  ground-floor rooms. Broad floorboards, including attics. Each attic (lower  and upper) has collars and aligned butt purlins.   YALDING HIGH STREET  TQ 6950  (west side)  6/132 Court Lodge and the  Dairy House (formerly  25-7-52 listed under High  Street, North Arm)  GV II*   Farmhouse, now house. Late C17. Chequered red and grey brick to both  elevations and to gable ends, Plain tile roof. Double depth. 2 storeys,  with cellar and two tiers of attics. Chamfered brick plinths. Rendered plat  band. Shallow central break with rendered rusticated quoins. Similar  quoins to outer ends of front elevation. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Roof  gabled to right and left. Brick gable (possibly formerly corniced) over  central break, with ridge only slightly lower than that of main range. Red  and grey brick gable end stacks. Two dormers with moulded wooden cornices,  pedimented gables and leaded two-light casements. Small blocked window  towards apex of central gable with two-light leaded casement with splayed  rubbed brick voussoirs below it. Fire Insurance plaque under cill. Regular  7-window front of slightly recessed leaded wooden cross windows with splayed  rubbed brick voussoirs, and raised painted keystones with cornice breaking  forwards over them; three to central break and two to each side flanking it.  Similar windows to ground floor (left end window on each floor blocked).  Splayed rubbed brick voussoirs to cellar windows under plinth. Central door  of four panels and two top lights, with two-light rectangular fanlight, and  heavy flat corniced hood with moulded pedimented gable, up four steps with  plain iron handrails. Rear elevation: similar, and with similar central  door, but without quoins or cornice, with segmental heads to first-floor,  lower and upper attic windows, and with unpedimented corniced door hood.  1½ storey section: (the Dairy House) to left (south), set back from front  elevation, but of similar date; red and grey brick, partly in Flemish bond,  with gabled plain tile roof, large central brick gable, tall stack adjoining  main range to right, three-light ground-floor casement, and panelled door up  flight of steps to left gable end. Interior: open-well principal staircase  with turned balusters, moulded handrail and closed string, rising to first  floor from rear of entrance hall within right (north) side of central rear  break. Dog-leg service staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail,  rising from cellar to upper attic from lobby within left side of central  rear break. Broad pegged doorway to former principal first-floor room from  landing, and smaller pegged doorways to rear right room and to corridor within  left section of house. Panelled doors. Elliptical brick fireplace with  chamfered bressumer to rear and front right ground-floor rooms and front left  and right first-floor rooms. Large rectangular brick fireplace to front left  ground-floor room, and to front right room in cellar. Broad un-chamfered  cross beam and relatively thin-scantling joists to front left and right  ground-floor rooms. Broad floorboards, including attics. Each attic (lower  and upper) has collars and aligned butt purlins.    |