Description

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SO 82 NE
3/35

DEERHURST, Lower Apperley,
B4213 (north side),
The Old Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Cooks Green Farmhouse)

GV II

Former farmhouse, now house. Late C16, later C17, altered C18,
early C19, later C20. Brick-nogged timber framing; English garden
wall bond brickwork, tiled roofs. Four-bay, one-room deep, 2
storey front, with parallel 2-storey rear wing over half length;
single-bay, 1½ storey extension left end; other C20 rear
additions. Front: framing 3 panels high. Mid C20 French doors at
right end, with contemporary lintel over; rectangular bay, brick
base, 3-light casement, lean-to roof; C18 four-light casement,
iron opening light, cutting across a stud. Late C20 brick gabled
porch, boarded door; 3-light casement with iron opening light,
cutting across stud and partly replacing former doorway. Above, on
right 4-light late C20 casement in lean-to dormer; 3-light and 2-
light casements, each with iron opening lights and leaded lights:
paired 2-light wooden casements. Central brick chimney on ridge,
lateral behind to left. Left end, slightly set back timber-framed,
angle strut to wallplate, 3-light C20 casement in lean-to dormer.
Right return 2 gables, left timber-framed, external brick stack
off-centre to right, brick-topped brick base in angle at foot on
left; to right 2-light C20 casement; above 3-light casement with
iron opening light, angle-braces to tie-beam, collar with angled
queen struts. Right gable brick, 4-light C19 window below,
cambered brick arch, 3-light casement above, stump of brick chimney
from eaves on right.
Interior: entrance hall partly opened up to floor above; wide
chamfer ceiling beams entrance and right half of house, ground
floor, wide fireplace with timber lintel in right end. Roof, tie-
beam trusses with collar and angled queen struts, one pair purlins
laid flat, square ridge; straight braces at one end each bay.
Said to have been converted into 3 cottages and later (C20)
reconverted to single house. Forms group with barn and with
Elfstone Hollow opposite (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO8595727386

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26381108

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings