Building record 2233/1 - Green Farm

<1> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, Vol.I p.199 (Book). SCH3228.

The earliest documentary reference (Greens Farm) to the farmstead dates from 1831 (see 3).

<2> Greenwood, C. & Greenwood J., 1819, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2115.

This map depicts two buildings at the approximate location of Green Farm.

<3> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

This map depicts two buildings at this located which are labelled Greens Farm.

<4> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 407240 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse: core of lower storey seventeenth century, major alterations and additional storey dated 1748. Minor alterations nineteenth century. Coursed, squared, buff sandstone rubble with composition tile roof and two stone chimneys. Double-pile plan. Two storey, symmetrical. three-bay east front. Raised rusticated quoins. Large thirty-pane windows below and three-light, wooden casements above, both under plain stone lintels. Rusticated, flat-headed doorcase contains six-board door. Date tablet above has initials TWS with angels and leaves in corners. West front has chamfered door lintel and flush quoins. Windows are three-light wooden casements. Interior: Timber-framed partition walls and chamfered ceiling beams. Eighteenth century stone fireplace with lintel on plain consoles.

<5> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 407424 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Corn barn: seventeenth century. Coursed buff sandstone rubble with projecting through stones with Kerridge stone-slate roof and a stone ridge. Rectangular three-bay barn, with opposed entrances under flat wooden lintels and projecting rubble drip courses above. Three lines of ventilation slots in sides and the now hidden ends. Two roof trusses of tie beams with short diagonal struts to lower purlins and collar above. Through purlins and ridge overlap at each truss. To the east a single bay stables and at right angles to the west a shippon added in 1896.

<6> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 252/2 c.1850 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

This map depicts two buildings at this location which correspond with the farmhouse and the barn. The plot is described as Green's House, buildings, garden, yard and roads.

<7> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9582, 1871-1883 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

This map depicts the farmhouse as two buildings adjoining along the long axis. A further small square building is attached on the north-western side. To the north-east is a garden/orchard and to the south-east is a yard. To the south of the yard is the barn. A smaller building adjoins the barn at its south-eastern ens. This building is orientated north-east to south-west. To the north-west of the barn is a small building, a possible pigsty. A well is depicted in the field to the east of the farmstead. Labelled Green’s Farm.

<8> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9582, 1897-1898 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

As previously depicted (see 7). Labelled Green Farm.

<9> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9582, 1909 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

There have been changes to the farmhouse. The building appears much broader than previously depicted, but the building has been reduced in length on the south-western side. The building located on the south-eastern side of the barn has been demolished and the north-western side extended so that the barn now forms an L shape. Labelled Green Farm.

<10> Huntings Surveys Ltd, 1971-1973, 1971-1973 County Survey, HSL UK 71 109 Run 46 no.3997, 07/07/1971 (Aerial Photograph). SCH4881.

The farmstead appears as much as it did on the 1909 Ordnance Survey map (see 9).

<11> National Remote Sensing Centre Ltd, 1992-3, National Remote Sensing Centre County Survey (1992-1993), 173/92 023, 31/10/1993 (Aerial Photograph). SCH5297.

An L-shaped building has been constructed within the area of the yard to the immediate north of the barn. The Farmhouse now appears to adjoin the 1896 shippon. A further farm building and yard area constructed to the north of the farmhouse.

<12> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 05/05/2022 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

The changes to the barn correspond with the date (1896) of the shippon referred to in the list description (see 5) and suggest a similar date for the nineteenth century alterations to the farmhouse (see 4).