Building record 1714/0/1 - Top House Farmhouse

Top House Farmhouse, Whitchurch Road, No Man's Heath. c.1700 of irregular Flemish bond brown brickwork with steep gray slate roof. Two storeys. Band of two separated raised courses of brick at first floor, parapet end gables; flush gable chimneys. Boarded oak door in C19 gabled open porch. Interior: inglenook in front room left with indications of former inglenook in kitchen behind. Corner fireplaces in front and back right rooms. A chamfered oak beam and oak joists in each front room; ceiling to right room also has diagonal beam parallel with corner chimney. Oak-framed spine wall upstairs. Two doors of broad overlapping oak boards downstairs, one plain oak door upstairs. Stair of oak with newels, shaped square rail and two turned balusters per step. Full architectural description (1).

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /3/14 (Report). SCH1934.