Building record 1755/1 - Holford Charity Farmhouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 405127 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse circa 1600, altered. Oak small-frame; panels contain later brickwork, painted. Slate roof. If storeys, three windows. Projecting, jettied cross-gable right, on sandstone plinth. The left wing, with two gabled dormers, has former farm building, probably eighteenth, as left extension. Part of rear wall of left wing is rebuilt in sandstone, painted. Vernacular small pane wood casements, probably nineteenth century. Replaced small-pane glazed door, with ridge chimney of brick opposite. Interior: Lobby entrance withingle nook behind. A pair of crucks (in line with hood-beam) are joined by arched brace with sharply-curved angle-struts in bedroom above. The frame is exposed, almost complete, internally. Stair with winders, replaced in deal. Boarded doors. John Holford of Congleton in 1712 granted the "messuage or tenement of his in Clutton in trust from his death with income of £4 p.a. to William Cooper, Schoolmaster of Clutton, and after his death to such poor indigent housekeepers, or others, inhabitants of the township of Clutton as should be real objects of charity." (Report of the Commissionere inquiring concerning Charities - Cheshire Record Office).

<2> Pevsner N & Hubbard E, 1971, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, p.180 (Book). SCH3078.

An early seventeenth century timber framed building with no ornamental motifs.