Description

BUXTON

SK07SE THE FRONT, Fairfield
616-1/2/101 (South side)
15/05/72 Cherry Tree Farmhouse and adjoining
house

II

Farmhouse and adjoining vacant house. Late C17 and mid C18,
with C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Coursed rubble
limestone, whitewashed to house, with gritstone dressings and
stone slate roof to farmhouse, corrugated asbestos to
adjoining house. Stone stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. North front has 2 window house to right,
with gabled porch to left and 3-light casement in ashlar
surround, 2-light chamfered mullion window and 2-light
casement in ashlar surround. Above two 2-light casements in
ashlar surrounds. Attached range to left 4 windows. Doorway to
right and 2 windows to left, above 3 plain sashes and larger
glazing bar sash to right.
South front has 3 window house to left, with single storey
lean-to addition to left with door flanked by 3-light and
single light casements, to right 3-light casement in ashlar
surround and beyond similar single light casement. Above two
2-light casements in ashlar surrounds and similar single light
casement to right forming part of a shared 2-light mullion
window.
Attached range to right has 3 windows arranged 2:1 with quoins
between. Off-centre doorway in ashlar surround with hood
flanked by boarded 2-light windows in ashlar surrounds, beyond
to right blocked door and boarded 2-light window in chamfered
ashlar surround. Above large central 3-light mullion window
with to right a plain sash and to left, between floors, tiny
boarded window in chamfered ashlar surround and beyond shared
single light casement forming part of a shared 2-light mullion
window.
INTERIOR: of house has many early features including principal
room with fire area and heck post succeeded by stone fireplace
with mantle on console brackets and stone shelves to jambs.
To extreme left blocked entrance into adjoining range. Door
frame within north wall has shaped wooden lintel. Beams to
principal room roughly hewn, those to smaller room chamfered
with stops.
First floor has central room with stone fireplace with massive
lintel. East room has plastered firehood and closed roof truss
with collar, and saddle to ridge, which has been blocked out
at sides to take roof purlins, one at least re-used, and raise
roof at eaves level.

Listing NGR: SK0695874092

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549174

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