Description

SJ 68 SW APPLETON C.P. STRETTON ROAD
(North Side)

6/21 School Farm Farmhouse.

II

Farmhouse, early C17 or before, rewalled circa 1800. Brick with grey
slate roof; oak wallplate survives (under front eaves) from former
timber frame. L-shaped; 1½ storeys; door and 3 windows to front; 2
windows to left side; left gable chimney; chimney on front ridge and
on ridge of left wing, all of brick. Small wood casement windows,
under skewback arches in lower storey. C19 porch with tiled gabled
roof on brackets.

Interior: The ingle nook in parlour right of entrance has a hood-beam
supported (right of nook) on a shaped stone pier with carved patterns.
Many chamfered oak beams of large section. Jowls survive from the
former oak frame at ground floor ceiling; oak purlins; doors of 3 wide
boards; one C17 oak door of small panels upstairs.

Listing NGR: SJ6369983702

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q62336403

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)