Description

SJ 46 SE WAVERTON C.P. THE VILLAGE (East Side)

2/27 Church House Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse: c.1880 by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster. English garden wall bond orange brick with muted diapering. Red sandstone dressings. Stone-coped, kneelered and finialled red tile roof. 3 brick chimneys. 3-storey, 3-bay north front. Stone plinth, quoins and moulded bands at sill and lintel levels. Dentil brick band in top storey, stone copings, kneelers and finials. Central bay has projecting gabled 3-storey porch with basket arched stone entrance with moulded imposts. Half-glazed door and panels behind. 3-light stone mullions above. Left end bay has pairs of similar windows in ground and first floors and a single window in a coped gabled dormer above. Simpler fenestration to right. All windows have applied lead glazing. Extensive service range to rear. Interior: Room to left of entrance has oak fire surround and panelled fitted dresser. 4-panelled doors. Cheese oven with steel doors behind kitchen fireplace.

An interesting neo-vernacular design whose detailing is strangely sombre for Douglas.

Listing NGR: SJ4619163397

External Links

• Wikidata Q26423635

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)