Description

UP HOLLAND

SD50NW BANK ROAD, Roby Mill
783-1/2/98 (North side)
Ayrefield Farmhouse

II

Shown on OS map as Bank House.
Farmhouse. Early C19, possibly with earlier core; altered.
Coursed graduated sandstone rubble, composition tile roof.
Unusual double-depth rectangular plan with entrance front in
gable end. Two storeys, a 3-window gabled south-west facade,
symmetrical; with a 1st-floor sill-band, a central doorway
with pilaster jambs, wedge lintel and panelled and glazed door
with 3-pane overlight; and vertical-rectangular windows on
both floors with monolith jambs, wedge lintels and altered
glazing. Chimney on centre of ridge. The right-hand (south)
side has only a doorway near the rear corner and 2 altered (or
inserted) windows above. The rear gable wall has a large
5-light flat-faced mullioned window on each floor, that at 1st
floor now lacking 2 mullions and the 5th light blocked; and in
the gable above patched masonry resembling a blocked doorway.
C20 lean-to addition to the right at ground floor; large
lean-to extension on north side.

Listing NGR: SD5235108233

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571513

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)