Building record 14990/1 - Pyegreave Farmhouse, Langley

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1159432 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse. Mid C18. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and stone slate roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: Stone quoins to corners and band. Two bays between floors. Four-light chamfered mullioned windows to both floors, that at first floor left being a wooden C20 replacement, all with stone lintels and sills. Central ground floor doorway with plank door. Late C18/Early C19 extension to left having larger rubble stones and quoins at corners with three-light windows to ground and first floors. Right hand return has two ground floor windows to gable end (C19 wooden replacements) . Recessed wing extending to right with 2-light windows at right and 3-light stone chamfered mullioned mezzanine window at left with similar 2-light window to first floor above. Rear: Gabled wing at left with two 2-light ground floor blocked windows and 3-light first-floor window all with chamfered stone mullions. C20 brick outshut to right with door. To right of this is a projecting 2-storey gabled wing with blank gable end.

<1> Jay Ashall Partnership Chartered Architects, 2019, Heritage Impact Assessment for the Conversion and Extension of Existing Barn at Pyegreave Farm, Langley, R4338 (Client Report). SCH8745.

A heritage assessment was produced in 2019 for Pyegreave Farm, Langley, in advance of the conversion of a barn, originally a cart shed, within the curtilage of the Grade II listed farmhouse. The farmhouse was built in the mid-eighteenth century and altered in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century. It is depicted on the Tithe Map for Sutton, dating to 1850, along with three other buildings, two of which are still extant barns located to the south-west and south of the farmhouse. A smaller building to the north of the farmhouse no longer exists. The barn which is to be converted to residential use does not appear on the Tithe Map but is shown on OS maps dated 1897 and 1907-1910.

The Tithe Map apportionment records the owner of Pyegreave Farm to be Ms Mary Twemlow, her holdings included the house, garden, associated buildings and approximately 110 acres of land surrounding Pyegreave Farm. She bought Pyegreave in the late 18th century for her husband, Mr Thomas Twemlow. On the death of Thomas in 1801, Mary kept Pyegreave and it was passed down through the Twemlow family following her death in 1821. The occupier of Pygreave Farm at this time was a Mr Thomas Whiston (presumably a tenant of Ms Twemlow).