Description

ENSTONE RADFORD
SP42SW
9/70 Radford Farmhouse and attached
garden walls

GV II

Farmhouse and garden walls. C17, extended early C19 and partly re-modelled mid
C19. Coursed limestone rubble with some ashlar dressings; artificial stone-slate
roofs with ashlar stacks. 3-unit lobby-entry plan, extended to rear, plus
subsidiary ranges. 2 storeys plus attic and 2 storeys. 4-window front of earlier
main range has mid-C19 windows, each of 2 sashes with a central mullion except
for a 4-pane sash over the secondary entrance in bay one; main entrance between
bays 2 and 3 is in line with a stack. Shallow-pitched roof with gable parapets
has a further stack to right. A rubble subsidiary range extending to right has a
steeper roof and casements with wooden lintels; a complex single-storey range to
left, formerly the dairy and bakehouse, has a large rubble stack. 2-window
early-C19 rear wing, returning from right of main range, has 12-pane sashes.
Interior: chamfered spine beams; winder stair to attics; large central stack
with back-to-back fireplaces, one an inglenook fireplace with chamfered
bressumer; fielded-panelled doors, cupboards and shutters; early-C19 stair with
stick balusters. Brick-lined rubble walls with flat copings extend from main
range and enclose a square front garden, ramping down from approximately 3
metres high to approximately 1.5 metres. Farmhouse forms a close group with
barns (q.v.) and shelter sheds (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SP4089823897

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26649483

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)