Description

WESTON C.P. MAIN ROAD
SJ 75 SW
2/53 Red Lion Farmhouse
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GV II

Farmhouse (now house). C17 with extensive early C19 rebuilding. Red
Flemish bond brick with a plain tile roof. Two storeys. Baffle entry
plan. Entrance front: three bays. Ground floor doorway to left of
centre with moulded lugged surround of painted stone with raised and
fielded panels to the inner sides. Pediment over supported on scroll
consoles. Before this is a late C19 timber framed posts with a
steeply pitched gabled roof. To the left of this is a three-light
ground floor casement window with a basket arch and to the right are
two similar windows. Between the floors is a brick band supported in
alternately projecting headers. The first floor has 3-light casement
windows to right and left and to the right of centre a cambered-headed
gabled half-dormer window with quatrefoils to the bargeboards.
Clasping buttresses to the extreme right and left and chimneystacks to
the right and left hand gable ends and a ridge stack to left of
centre. The left hand gable end has a central C19 chimney stack. To
the left of this are 3 x 4 cells of small framing with an angle brace
to the left hand corner and a jettied gable supported by a moulded
bracket. The walling to the right of the chimney stack is flush with
the gable and painted in simulation of small framing. The gable has
chevron strutting. Projecting wing to the centre of the rear of C17
date with C19 outshuts to either side.
Interior: 3-cell plan. Chamfered ceiling beams to ground floor rooms
and ingle nook fireplace (now obscured) to parlour. Exposed small
framing of original exterior wall to outshut and panels of wattle and
daub infill. Queen post truss to rear wing. The sitting room has C17
run-through panelling to the lower walls.

Listing NGR: SJ7336252473

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26431638

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)