The palette

Rubble stone for the ground floor (cobblestone, stone and andesite, mossy cobblestone low down) with stone-brick quoins and andesite lintels; dark oak logs for the frame with white calcite plaster between them; warm red tiles of granite with a few brick stairs for every roof; spruce for the shutters, the fascia and the doors.

Techniques

• Stone below, timber above
• Jetties on corbels
• A half-hipped roof
• Roofs that meet cleanly
• A corbelled oriel
• A round dovecote

The steps

1. Stone footing
2. Ground floor of rubble stone, stone-brick quoins
3. Wagon door and front door
4. Chimney breast and stack
5. Corbels under the jetties
6. Upper floor: dark oak frame and white plaster
7. Cross wing: second floor, jettied out again
8. Oriel window on corbels
9. Dovecote: round stone tower
10. Dovecote: plastered pigeon loft
11. Main roof of red tiles, half-hipped at the west
12. Two dormers
13. Cross wing roof and its timbered gables
14. Dovecote spire and its finial
15. Porch on braced posts
16. Lanterns and the farm's sign
17. Inside: hearth, table and barrels

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