Listed Building record MDO10418 - Font Le Roi, Folke

A house thought to have been built around AD 1600 but with many 18th-century and later alterations. The north-east wing was probably built in the fifteenth century, perhaps as a gatehouse. The building has walls of stone rubble and a tiled roof.

A rubble-walled house built circa 1600, but much altered in the 18th century. The north east wing was built as a gatehouse, probably in the 15th century, and is now farm buildings. <2> "Font le Roi", name confirmed by owners, a large farm house in fair condition. The south west wing retains stone mullioned windows, some blocked, but the rest of the house was referestrated with wooden windows in the 18th/19th century. Stone flag roofs but rebuilt chimneys in red brick. At the north end of a range of outbuildings, a gatehouse with a pointed arched 15th century doorway, now blocked. The gateway, with heavy wood beam lintels has probably been reconstructed. <4>

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Jan 18 2022 9:09AM