Description

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SD40NW SCHOOL LANE, Westhead
663-1/4/190 (East side)
11/08/72 Darbyshire's Farmhouse
(Formerly Listed as:
SCHOOL LANE, Westhead
Darbyshire's Farmhouse with
adjoining barn)

II

Farmhouse. Later C17 (dated 1677 inside), enlarged and altered
in C18, and recently renovated and the barn converted as a
dwelling.
Handmade brown brick on a high plinth of coursed sandstone
rubble, with composition tile roofs.
The house has a single-depth 3-bay baffle-entry plan, enlarged
at the rear by the addition of a parallel range to the left
half and a lean-to in the angle with this. Two low storeys and
3 windows; plain doorway at the junction of the 2nd and 3rd
bays, with a rectangular lintel, and three 3-light casement
windows with C20 wooden mullion glazing. Gable chimney to the
left and large square chimney on ridge at junction of 2nd and
3rd bays, both with water tabling and sunk panels decorated
with lozenges (etc.).
INTERIOR: large inglenook with stop-chamfered bressummer, heck
with peep-hole (now blocked and concealed) and blocked former
fire-window; stop-chamfered lateral beams in housepart and in
parlour at lower end (the latter with a forked end); 2
chamfered longitudinal beams in 3rd bay; small datestone
re-set in former rear wall, with carved decoration and raised
lettering "HW", and the date "1677" written back to front.

Listing NGR: SD4401607076

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505360

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)