Description

SK 13 SW PARISH OF DOVERIDGE DERBY ROAD, WEST BROUGHTON 2/8 (South Side) Home Farm House 13.9.67 II*

Farmhouse. C16, early C18 and C19. Red brick and close studded timber frame with plaster infil, partly encased in brick and clapboard. Plain tile roofs with three brick ridge stacks and two gable stacks. Two storeys, irregular plan. East elevation of four bays with exposed close studded timber frame. Right hand two bays may be earlier. Twin gabled with central stack and first floor jetty. Clapboard to upper floor. Ground floor has two 3-light casement windows and a door to the left. Two similar 3-light windows above and two single-light trefoil-headed windows in the gables. Large, gabled two storey porch to right, close studded, with middle rail and diagonal and decorative timbers in the gable. Moulded floor plate. Oak panelled door to east with 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed window above, with diamond leaded lights. To the sides of the porch a 4-light and a 3-light wooden mullion window. Further bay to right with a 3-light wooden casement window to ground floor and a 2-light window above. North gable end has exposed timbers with middle rail and moulded brackets. Early C18 west wing of brick with first floor band and second floor band to south gable end, which has two 2-light casement windows with gauged brick heads. The lower window has metal diamond lights. To the right irregular fenestration of tripartite casement windows under segment heads. C19 south west wing. South gable end to right with chamfered plinth, first floor band, and to the ground floor a blocked doorway and a blocked window with gauged brick head. Interior has exposed ceiling beams, centre room on the ground floor has Jacobean panelling and a stone chimneypiece. Several early Georgian panelled doors. Bedroom at the south end has a wooden bolection moulded chimneypiece. Within the existing roof an older, possibly medevial, crown post collar purlin roof of two full bays. Smokeblackened and with ashlar pieces from the rafters to the wall plates.

Listing NGR: SK1466532634

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