Monument record 2232/1 - Harestead Farm

<1> Greenwood, C. & Greenwood J., 1819, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2115.

A building is depicted at this approximate location on this map, but is not named.

<2> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

Two buildings are depicted at this approximate location on this map, but are not named.

<3> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 252/2 c.1850 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The tithe map for this township depicts two buildings at this location. The plot is described as Late Richardson's House, building, yard and garden.

<4> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 407237 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse: dated 1696 with porch added slightly later. Coursed, squared, brown sandstone rubble with black-painted stone dressings. Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge. One brick and one stone chimney. Rectangular, gable-entry, double-pile plan with projecting, two-storey porch. All gables stone-coped with kneelers. Two-storey, asymmetrical, three-bay front. Windows mixture of tall, two and three-light chamfered stone mullions. Blocked doorcase to right with two-light horizontal sliding sash inserted. Door in plain reveal in porch. Cyma-moulded doorcase in right gable end has date and initials WIE on lintel. Remaining windows in sides and rear mixture of one, two and three-light chamfered mullions.

<5> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 407238 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farm buildings: late seventeenth century (probably- contemporary with farmhouse), alterations nineteenth century. Coursed, buff, sandstone rubble with Kerridge stone-slate roof and stone ridge. L-shaped in plan. South range, three-bay former corn barn with opposed entrances under wooden lintels. West range, shippon with nineteenth rectangular openings under stone lintels. Large roof timbers visible in all gables.

<6> 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 and farm buildings. It is labelled Richardson's Farm.