Building record 2019/1/0 - Home Farmhouse and Front Garden Walls

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 404819 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse: c1700 with some eighteenth century and later alterations. English bond orange brick, partly on red sandstone base, Welsh slate roof with two gable brick chimneys. L-shaped plan but main portion double-pile. Two and a half storey, symmetrical five-bay front. Brick bands at first and second floor. Two three-light wooden casements with glazing bars in ground storey, in place of pairs of blocked openings. Central board door with plain fanlight under weak segmental brick head. First floor has five two-light mullioned and transomed windows with glazing bars and three small two-light windows with glazing bars to half storey. Interior: Exposed but undecorated ceiling beams in ground floor. Number of doors with two fielded panels. Open string staircase with turned oak balusters and later hand-rail and newels.

The contemporary brick and red sandstone north and west front garden walls are plain and c. 1.4m high. The bond is irregular and there is a semi-circular stone coping. The central gateway has lost its gates.