Description

SK29NW BRADFIELD UPPER MIDHOPE

3/120 Wellbank Farmhouse
including No, 1
Wellbank Cottage
25/4/69 and Sycamore Cottage

GV II

Farmhouse now 3 dwellings. C17 with C18 and C19 additions. Partly
cruck-framed, deeply-coursed, squared gritstone, stone slate roofs.
Irregular L-shaped plan, main range 2 storeys with extensions and rear
outshuts and a short projection beyond the junction with the 1½ storey
front wing to right. Main range: 2 storeys, 5 windows to first floor.
Plinth, quoins. Door to far right, in short projection beyond front
wing, has quoined reveals and Tudor-arched lintel. Rest of elevation
within farmyard has 2 C17 bays to right with two ground floor 4-pane
sashes inserted in double-chamfered surrounds, sills altered, shared
hoodmould. 2 smaller sashes to 1st floor in similar altered surrounds.
To left: 2 C18 bays with square-faced mullion windows. Central blocked
door, now window,has bonded ashlar surround, 3-light window to left,
similar window to right now with board door inserted in 2 left lights.
Band. First floor: 2-light window to left, similar opening to right
now sashed, mullion removed. To left a C19 bay: altered doorway to
right and casement to each floor. Altered ridge stacks and end stack
to right. To rear of C17 part: unaltered double-chamfered mullion
windows to both floors, ground floor hood moulds, wood casements. Front
wing: in left return, left part breaking forward has, to right, a door
with quoined reveals and Tudor-arched lintel. Various double-chamfered
mullion windows to each side, some altered. Interior of front wing: not
available for inspection. Cruck-frame and central inglenook fireplace
visible. Also said to contain stone staircase and panelling.

Listing NGR: SK2168599653

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26487322

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)