Description

SJ 47 NE
4/42

ELLESMERE PORT AND NESTON
NORTH OF MARSH LANE
Holme Farm

(Formerly listed as Holme Farmhouse and Farm Buildings around cobbled farmyard)

21.2.83

II
Early C19. Late Georgian symmetrical two-storey English garden wall bond brown brick farmhouse with graded grey Welsh slate roofs. Flush verges, plain eaves, plain brick chimneys.

Three-window central portion with one-window wings east and west. South front: three panel front door in arched opening with semi-circular fanlight (radial glazing bars); wood casements with single mullions and transomes, originally 20-pane in central block, 16-pane in wings - some glazing bars removed.

North face (to farmyard): Replacement door in original opening with segmental arched sandstone lintel; tall 24-pane fixed light central window to staircase; four 16-pane double hung Georgian sash windows, one replacement casement in enlarged opening. Flat segmental brick arch window heads.

Early C19. Late Georgian farm buildings, two-storey irregular English garden wall bond brown brick walls and graded grey Welsh slate roofs. Flush verges and simple eaves.

Barn and shippon (west side farmyard): Full height segmental arched cart entrance with sandstone hinge blocks for double doors (removed) ground floor windows and cow doors altered; two circular and one rectangular pitch holes and diabolo-shaped vents to loft. Shippon (north side farmyard) boarded doors in segmental arched doorways (some altered) to cowshed; two circular pitch holes and rectangular loading doorways to hayloft; diabolo-shaped vents. The farm buildings are attached to the farmhouse by a single storey brick shed with modern corrugated asbestos lean-to roof.

Listing NGR: SJ4553177103

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26615163

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