Description

SHERFIELD ENGLISH MILL LANE
SU 22 SE
1/40
Cottage at Dairy Farm

II

Former farmhouse. Probably 2nd half C17; later alterations. Timber
framed with painted brick infill; hipped thatch roof (of combed wheat
reed over original long straw); brick ridge stack between right-hand
bays. Baffle-entry plan. 1 1/2 storeys,3 bays, right bay possibly added.
square panelled timber frame on brick plinth with straight braces from
wall posts to eaves plate. On right side of central bay, board door
in chamfered wooden surround protected by C19 or early C20 gablet
brick porch. C20 lean-to porch and side-outshut on left. Three C20
windows to ground floor. on upper floor the left bays each have a
small-pane wooden casement of 2 lights under swept thatch. Rear; left
bay has old board door with cover strips. On right, external stack and
with lean-to. Interior; central room has brick inglenook fireplaces
bread-oven; winder stair to side bracketed mantleshelf, bench, and
bread-oven; winder stair to side of chimney; large-scantling spine-
beam with deep chamfer and stepped steps; similar beam in left bay;
board doors throughout wide floorboards to 1st floor and. jowelled
heads of wallposts, straight windbraces, purlins, tie-beams and
principal rafters visible. In state of disrepair at time of inspection
(2/7/91).

Listing NGR: SU2946523219

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552888

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]