Description

DODCOTT CUM WILKESLEY HEYWOOD LANE SJ 64 SW 7/31 Butterley Hayes 12.1.67 - II* Farmhouse. Early C17 with later additions. Timber framed with brick infill and brick with a tile roof. Two storeys with attic. H-shaped plan with additions. Entrance front: Gabled projecting wings at left and right. That at right has 6 x 4 cells of small framing with angle braces to left and right. To ground and first floor levels are 3-light casement windows. Timber framed gable above with a single-light attic window. The left hand gable is essentially similar save that it has only one angle brace at right and a 4-light ground floor window at left. To left of the ground floor is a later canted bay window of single storey height with a central 3-light window and having a catslide roof connecting it to the roof of the central recessed range which it also partially overlaps. This is of brick painted in simulation of timber framing and has a C19 door of 6 panels with, at right of it, a 3-light C19 casement window. To the first floor are at left a 2-light and at righ a 3-light casement window. Ridge chimney stack at left of centre. To the left of this front is a service wing of brick painted in simulation of timber framing. The right hand side has a rectangular chimney breast of brick with an offset and 2 diamond-shaped flues. To left of this are 3 x 4 cells of small framing with an angle brace at left and at right are 4 x 4 cells with an angle brace at right. The rear has, at right, two gabled C19 additions painted white and a central recessed portion with 5½ x 4 cells of small framing of which the two rows of cells at ground floor level are mostly of brick painted in simulation of framing. To left of this is the projecting gabled wing with 6 x 4 cells of small framing. One two-light and one cross window at ground floor level and a 3-light casement window to first floor level. Interior: To the parlour is an inglenook fireplace with ovolo-moulded bressumer and to the same room are two ovolo-moulded and a chamfered ceiling beam,all massive. One ground floor room has two ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with stepped tongue stops. Run-through panelling to this room, somewhat disturbed and perhaps brought from elsewhere. Twelve-panel door also with run-through panelling. To the first floor are plank doors with C17 strap hinges and wooden latch of lobe original form. Further chamfered ceiling beams to the first floor rooms with stepped tongue stops.

Listing NGR: SJ6479441951

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