Building record 524/6 - Beech Farm

<1> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 390/2, 1845 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

This map depicts the farmhouse with an L-shaped farm building to the immediate west. The plot is described as a “house, farm buildings, yard and garden”.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ6587, 1874 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

Similar to the farmstead depicted on the 1845 Tithe map (see 1).

<3> The GeoInformation Group, 2005, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review (Aerial Photograph). SCH4608.

The farmstead still looks very similar to the farmstead depicted on the 1845 Tithe map (see 1).

<4> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 16/07/2021 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

The farmhouse was sub-divided into separate properties sometime in the late twentieth century. The adjacent farm building has been converted to a domestic property more recently, with the northern part of the building being demolished as part of the conversion.

<5> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 59028 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

House 1764, of stone-dressed brown brick, Flemish bond to front, with stone-slate roof. Flush gable chimneys. Two storeys plus attics. Replaced door in case with entablature. Windows (two to lower storey, three to upper storey) have stone architraves and cills containing small-pane casements (bars removed from left window to each storey). Projecting sandstone plinth and rusticated quoins; oval datestone above central window. A casement window to attic (with architrave as at front) in each gable; that to the right is blocked. Nineteenth century wing at rear.