Building record 1429 - Farmers Green

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58265 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Formerly farmhouse, now a house: dated 1581 with later nineteenth and twentieth century alterations. Washed brick on sandstone plinth. Welsh slate roof, one brick ridge chimney and one massive external stone gable chimney, with a moulding below a later brick stack. Originally a rectangular H-plan house. The stone stack bears the inscription: "EDWARDE GREENE ESQR DENARYE YEOMAN OF QUEEN ELIZABETHES CHAMBER BUYLDED THIS HOWS OF HIS OWN PROPER COST ANNO DOMI MDLXXXI ET ANNO DNI 1582 WINN". This gable has a single light, cut through a stone block with moulded panels in the soffits, to light fire area. Remainder of the front of the house remodelled late nineteenth and twentieth century with three-light casements with glazing bars and a timber framed gable with projecting bay windows below.

Interior: Timber framed partition walls and chamfered ceiling beams with flat stops. Parlour has massive stone fireplace with heavy chamfered stone lintel. Remainder of interior much altered.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ8877, 1873 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

Known as Greenbank.