Building record 1122/1 - Boults Green Farm

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 56480 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse. Seventeenth century. Timber framed with brick infill. Two storeys. The entrance front has a projecting wing at right with close studding to the ground floor with tension braces. Jettied first floor supported on moulded brackets with a moulded bressumer. Small-framing to the first floor with angle braces. Three-light casement windows to the ground, first and attic floors. To left of this is a recessed portion, mostly of brick painted in simulation of timber framing. At right is a nineteenth century lean-to porch in the re-entrant angle with the wing, to left of which is a three-light ground floor window with a two-light first floor casement window above. To left of this is a gabled portion which has a three-light casement window and much simulated timber framing. One ridge chimney stack to left of centre. The left hand side has small-framing, with angle braces, a massive chimney stack at left of centre with offsets and two flues and two three-light ground floor casement windows of twentieth century date and a two-light, and a three-light first floor window.

<2> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 56482 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Barn. Seventeenth century. Timber framed with brick infill and plain tile, slate and stone-slate roof (formerly all of stone slate) . Two storeys. Farmyard front: stone plinth, supporting twenty-five x three cells of small framing with angle braces to left and right and to every fifth upright and tension braces to left and to the fifteenth upright from left. Some of the panels of brick infill are tumbled or partially tumbled. To the ground floor are three stable doors and two sets of cart doors at right. To the first floor are four rectangular loft doors. The right hand gable-end has jowelled corner posts and a nineteenth century staircase to the first floor. Similar pattern of timber framing to the rear as appears on the entrance front. The internal dividing walls are also timber framed.

<3> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 56481 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Pair of gatepiers. Mid to late eighteenth century. Sandstone ashlar. Two gatepiers of square section with cyma-moulded caps supporting ball finials.

<4> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, edt 44/2 c.1841 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

This map depicts the farmstead as two plots. One plot contains the house and the barn to the immediate north-east. It is described as a house, garden and yard. The second plot, located to the north, includes a long probable farm building and is described as a croft. Orchards are located to the south and east.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ7659, 1975 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

This map depicts the farmhouse with the farm buildings to the north-east. The more northerly farm building appears to comprise three or four different buildings in a continuous linear range.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ7659, 1898 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

A further farm building has been constructed to the north east.