Building record 524/5 - Home Farm

<1> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

The farmstead is depicted on this map.

<2> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 390/2, 1845 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

This map depicts the farmstead at the end of a wide lane from the Lymm Road. The map depicts the house and barn, with two smaller buildings in-between and a further barn-like building to the immediate west in the lane. The plot is described as 'House, farm, buildings, yard, garden and occupation road' occupied by William Houghton.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ6587, 1874 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

The farmstead depicted on this map is very similar to that depicted on the tithe map (see 2). Orchards lie to the north of the house and east of the barn.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ6587, 1898 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

The barn-like building within the lane has been demolished, as have the buildings between the house and the barn. A block of three pigsties have been built to the east of their location.

<5> The GeoInformation Group, 2005, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review (Aerial Photograph). SCH4608.

The lane now connects with Stockport Road to the south and the farmstead still appears to be serving it’s original purpose.

<6> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 59029 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse 1692 altered 1745 (datestones). Brown brick (Flemish bond to front) on sandstone plinth. Roof replaced in Hardrow cement slates. Rectangular, of two storeys plus attic, with five windows. Late twentieth century door in slightly projecting gabled porch of painted sandstone to lintel level; the -sandstone lintel has double-cyma cornice. Two-light wood casements with small panes in coved projecting subframes of stone, painted. Oval datestone 1745. Two windows in each end gable. Plaque (now in lean-to extension) at rear IK 1692. Interior: six-panel doors, fielded one side, have short central panels with tall panels above and below. Overmantel in parlour with, probably, seventeenth century elements. Mid eighteenth century dogleg stair to first floor has two turned balusters per step; the stair from first floor to attic has shaped splat balusters, probably late seventeenth century.

<7> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 59030 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Threshing barn, cart shed and stable, now store sheds, probably mid eighteenth century. Brick with oak-framed internal walls; replaced roofs of Hardrow cement slates. Barn doors on south side under oak lintel; inserted garage doors on north side of barn; other doorways are camber-arched. Boarded doors. One circular pitch-hole in hayloft. Loophole vents. Oak framed partition between barn and open cart shed to left. Stable with hayloft over (right, at right angles) has oak posts at junction with barn. Queen-strut trusses of oak; one has an inserted king-post.