Description

SJ 87 NE MOTTRAM ST.ANDREW C.P. WILMSLOW ROAD (North Side)

5/99 Farmers Green

II

Formerly farmhouse, now a house: dated 1581 with later C19 and C20 alterations. Washed brick on sandstone plinth. Welsh slate roof, 1 brick ridge chimney and 1 massive external stone gable chimney, with a moulding below a later brick stack. Originally a rectangular H-plan house. The stone stack bears the inscription: "EDWARDE GREENE ESQR DENARYE YEOMAN OF QUEEN ELIZABETHES CHAMBER BUYLDED THIS HOWS OF HIS OWN PROPER COST ANNO DOMI MDLXXXI ET ANNO DNI 1582 WINN" This gable has a single light, cut through a stone block with moulded panels in the soffits, to light fire area. Remainder of the front of the house remodelled late C19 and C20 with 3-light casements with glazing bars and a timber framed gable with projecting bay windows below.

Interior: Timber framed partition walls and chamfered ceiling beams with flat stops. Parlour has massive stone fireplace with heavy chamfered stone lintel. Remainder of interior much altered.

Listing NGR: SJ8888377417

External Links

• Wikidata Q26528166

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings