Monument record 394/1 - Butterley Heys, Heywood Lane

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ 64 SW 1 (Index). SCH2487.

Butterley Heys. Homestead moat. [Penney E.M. 10/05/1961].

Annotated 25” survey. Present house sixteenth/seventeenth century. No trace of earlier building on site. West: Inner scarp spread back in gardens (not portrayable on plan). Bush covered scarp over 1.5m high. South: Moat partially water filled. Minor causeway of earth and stones. Probably modern. East: Hollow c.0.1m deep in lawn on course of moat. Duck pond at possible north-east corner of the moat. [White J.H. F.I. 08/09/1961].

Published survey checked and found correct. [Waggot T.P. F.I 05/10/1964].

<2> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 57053 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse. Early seventeenth century with later additions.

Timber framed with brick infill and brick with a tile roof. Two storeys with attic. H-shaped plan with additions. Entrance front: Gabled projecting wings at left and right. That at right has six by four cells of small framing with angle braces to left and right. To ground and first floor levels are three-light casement windows. Timber framed gable above with a single-light attic window. The left-hand gable is essentially similar save that it has only one angle brace at right and a four-light ground floor window at left. To left of the ground floor is a later canted bay window of single storey height with a central three-light window and having a catslide roof connecting it to the roof of the central recessed range which it also partially overlaps. This is of brick painted in simulation of timber framing and has a nineteenth century door of six panels with, at right of it, a three-light nineteenth century casement window. To the first floor are at left a two-light and at right a three-light casement window. Ridge chimney stack at left of centre. To the left of this front is a service wing of brick painted in simulation of timber framing. The right-hand side has a rectangular chimney breast of brick with an offset and two diamond-shaped flues. To left of this are three by four cells of small framing with an angle brace at left and at right are four by four cells with an angle brace at right. The rear has at right, two gabled nineteenth century additions painted white and a central recessed portion with five and a half by four cells of small framing of which the two rows of cells at ground floor level are mostly of brick painted in simulation of framing. To left of this is the projecting gabled wing with six by four cells of small framing. One two-light and one cross window at ground floor level and a three-light casement window to first floor level.

Interior: To the parlour is an inglenook fireplace with ovolo-moulded bressumer and to the same room are two ovolo-moulded and a chamfered ceiling beam, all massive. One ground floor room has two ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with stepped tongue stops. Run-through panelling to this room, somewhat disturbed and perhaps brought from elsewhere. Twelve-panel door also with run-through panelling. To the first floor are plank doors with seventeenth century strap hinges and wooden latch of lobe original form. Further chamfered ceiling beams to the first-floor rooms with stepped tongue stops.