Building record 2310/1 - Common Carr Farmhouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58234 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse: late seventeenth century but date of 1741 reportedly found. Nineteenth and twentieth century alterations. English garden wall bond red brick. Welsh slate roof and one brick ridge chimney. Sawtooth brick band at first floor. End bays have three-light wooden casements where two windows, with flat brick heads, used to be. two-light wooden casements above. Near central doorway with segmentally arched rough brick head. Gables have a raised brick band at first floor and a dentilated band at eaves level. Three ventilation holes in each gable have raised brick lozenge-shaped surrounds. To rear are two small wooden mullioned and transomed windows with lattice-leaded glazing and a small nineteenth century extension. Interior: two-room plan with door opening onto wooden baffle (now papered over). Chamfered ceiling beams with flat and tongue stops.