Description

STOKE ON TRENT

SJ85SE WHITFIELD ROAD, Ball Green 613-1/2/2 (South West side) Fir Tree Farmhouse and cottage

II

Farm house and adjoining cottage. Early C17. Coursed and squared rubble with plain tiled roof. 2-storeyed hall range with coped gabled cross wing to west. Entrance against stack at eastern end, with roughly moulded stone lintel, and inserted windows to central section, stone mullioned windows survive in projecting gable of western bay, and in the rear of this wing, the original hood mould survives above an inserted door and window. Added wing to rear faced in C19 brick, but with main beam and fireplace bressumer inside which suggest the refacing of an earlier structure. The cottage which adjoins to the east is possibly built around an original cross wing of the farm house: there is a blocked doorway in the present entrance porch, and traces of possible timbering visible in the walls of the present later C19 cottage. This is a single unit, but tall double-pile plan.

Listing NGR: SJ8860052540

External Links

• Wikidata Q26505940

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)