Survey Data
Reg No
31310024
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1912 - 1925
Coordinates
125566, 277882
Date Recorded
11/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey direct entry farmhouse, extant 1925. Now disused. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered concrete coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on consoles. Rendered battered walls with rusticated rendered piers to corners supporting rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing timber panelled doors having overlights. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to road with rendered piers to perimeter having capping supporting barley twist-detailed flat iron "farm gates".
Appraisal
A dishevelled farmhouse reconstructed in the early twentieth century not only as the successor to, but most likely retaining the basis of an existing house (extant 1838) displaying a comparable footprint on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (published 1840) with such traits as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the rectilinear direct entry plan form; and the feint battered silhouette all suggesting the vernacular provenance of the composition (cf. 31311914). A prolonged period of unoccupancy or neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thereby upholding the character or integrity of a farmhouse making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a sylvan street scene.