Description

SK 37 NW
5/142
31.1.67

PARISH OF HOLMESFIELD
CORDWELL LANE
(South Side)
Tanyard Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17, with C18 and C20 alterations
and additions. Coursed coal measures sandstone with ashlar
dressings, quoins, plain gables and stone gable stacks. Stone
slated roof. Single storey and attics, three bays, with
advanced gable range to centre of main elevation and a C19
extension to east end. South elevation with off-centre doorway
having a massive lintel and quoined surround. 3-light late C17
chamfer mullioned window with flush surround to west end, and a
2-light flush mullioned window above, which projects as a gabled
dormer into the attic. Casements and fixed lights all with
leaded cames. Gabled projection obscures west jamb of doorway,
and has a single light C17 opening to first floor. End bay with
C20 2-light casements beneath plain lintels. Rear elevation
with 3 and 2-light casements beneath plain lintels. Rear
elevation with 3 and 2-light recessed chamfer mullion windows,
the latter totally within a gabled dormer. Two single light
stair windows at angle of main range and C19 extension, the
upper light blocked. C20 casement windows of 2-lights to
extension, and C19 doorway with four-panelled boarded door.
Interior. Main range with two ground floor rooms separated by
C17 panelled partition on C20 stone plinth. Two hearths, that
to the hall bay within recess of hearth beam, supported by a
heck post at the north end, and with an empty mortice at the
south end. Hall hearth with corbelled jambs carrying deep
lintel. Parlour hearth with chamfered surround with plain
stops. Heavy spine beams and joists to both rooms, with
chamfers and stops. Stone winder stair to attic floor, passes
up beside the hall hearth. Partition to first floor is a closed
upper cruck truss, formerly with wind braces. C17 plaster motif
to first floor bedroom partition. The building was refurbished
in 1985-6.

Listing NGR: SK3169076359

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26403330

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)