Building record 1776/1 - Dairy House Farm

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 55159 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Former stables at the Home Farm (now dairy and storage), largely 1721, but with C17 core and later insertions and fittings, and barn, C19, in style of 1721 range. Brown brick, stone dressings, slate roofs. Stables are a 2½ storey symmetrically composed range running east to west, with 3 gabled bays, of which the central bay projects forward. Stone plinth, quoins, first floor band, kneelers to stone capped gable parapets, and fluted and plain keystones. Ground floor has 9 replaced windows and a door, and 1 blocked opening, those in the central bay are without keystones. First floor has blocked or blank rectangular openings, some with keystones. Gables have blank pitch holes with plain keystones. Brick band at eaves height on gables, and dentils below the eaves. Rear (facing farmyard): 1 bay gabled dairyhouse. Timber-framed, painted brick nogging, some simulated timber-framing. Slate roof. Barn runs north-south and has a west front with 2 small front facing gables with air vents. Gable end has quatrefoil vent below ridge, and vertical slit vents below and 2 rectangular loft openings. East front facing yard has ground and 1st floor rectangular openings, some glazed, asymetrically disposed. Stone quoins, kneelers and gable parapets. Outward front is mostly blocked by later stables.

<2> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 152/2 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The stables, barn, farmhouse and coach house, depicted on the tithe map for Edge township, seem to survive within the modern farm complex.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ4850 1911 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

Additional structures shown, including possible pig styes and an open sided barn. The eastern arm of the listed barn complex has been demolished and replaced with a new structure.