Definition of Terms Used
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Bolection The projecting part of the moulding that surrounds a panel (or similar)
Bressummer A beam or girder over an opening, and supporting a wall.
Chamfered With the angles of the edge cut off or rounded off. A bevelled edge.
Mullion Upright division between window panes, especially of stone.
Ogee A moulding with an S-shaped section. Also described as an arch of double curvature - first convex then concave.
Palladian After the style of Andrea Palladio - a 16th century Italian architect.
Pilaster Rectangluar pillar, projecting from and supporting a wall.
Class I Two ground-floor rooms with a central chimneystack against which there is a lobby entrance, and often a stair. Thought to also be known as a "two-unit baffle entry".
Description
The Parsonage, formerly known
as Parsonage Farm House, is largely of 16th century origin with 18th Century
and 19th Century additions. It is suspected that The Parsonage was built
on the site of a much earlier dwelling.
The front of the house, facing the road, was remodelled along Georgian lines
in the late 18th Century. The entrance hall has original Jacobean Oak panelling
on the south side. The rear of the property is a complex mix of periods
and styles. One of the first floor rooms to the rear of the property contains
a plain barrelled lath and plaster ceiling, an unusual and surprising feature.
This room is still fully panelled in original Jacobean oak panelling. There
is a small cupboard in the panelling, reputedly for storing 'holy water'
perhaps giving some credence to its title of the 'Chapel Room'.
The house has connections with The Pitt Family but was lately occupied by
Paddy Coggan's Grandfather who farmed much of the land in Stratford from
the 1920's. The Coggan Family are still represented in the village.
The property was divided in the 1980's to create two dwellings.
