Description

ALVANLEY C.P. HELSBY ROAD
SJ 47 SE
North East Side
4/7 Poplar Tree Farmhouse.
GV II
Farmhouse: 1684 altered and extended, of painted brown brick on
sandstone plinth; grey slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 rooms with gable to
road with 1-room right wing added. Cyma stone band at 1st floor on
dentilled brick band of 2 courses; cyma stone band on band of 3 brick
courses, the middle course set diagonally, at base of front gable.
Band of raised diaper-work beneath eaves. The blank front gable has
stone at centre of upper storey inscribed IE:L:1684 with a projecting
cambered arch, perhaps the head of a former window, to each side; a
blank oval panel with moulded stone surround in gable. In left side a
flush narrow oval panel may have been to former window or pitching
eye. Flush stone quoins at rear corners. Ridge chimney on
cross-wing; flush gable chimney on right wing. 4-panel half-glazed
door in pedimented case in right wing. Windows in both wings are 4
and 6-pane casements of C19 vernacular type.
Interior altered. Overmantel in rear room of cross-wing probably late
C17.

Listing NGR: SJ4948074268

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26615253

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)