Description

WALSALL MB PINFOLD LANE SP 09 NE 8/87 No 169 (Coxfold Farmhouse)

- II House. Probably early C17, altered mid-C20. Timber-framing, now partly replaced by brick and mostly rendered. Tile roof. Lobby-entry plan. Two storeys, two bays. Front wall rendered brick with C20 windows and applied timbers. One window at each side of single-storey gabled porch. Four small windows on first floor. At the left is a single-storey lean- to addition. Base of chimney cap of C17 brick, with C20 brick above. Rear wall has exposed framing to upper storey, in square panels with straight tension braces. Interior: the right hand room has a chamfered and stopped main joist which is carried on a carved timber bracket where it enters a plastered chimney breast. To the right of the chimney is a C18 built-in oak cupboard. The left hand room has chamfered and stopped common joists and an axial main beam which has ox-tongue stops. The inglenook fireplace is lined with C20 brick. On the first floor there is a single central truss, between the brick flues of the two chimneys. It has a tie-beam, collar and raking struts. It was originally closed, and-on the landing, where it is exposed, studs of a partition wall remain as well as a cambered doorhead cut into the soffit of the beam. When re-exposed during C20 alterations this was found to have "1617" carved roughly on its soffit. This is a plausible date for the house, but the numerals do not appear to be of C17 type.

Listing NGR: SP0582996729

External Links

• Wikidata Q26431965

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  For the Record