Exterior

Third quarter C17 main block with slightly later single-storey adjoining wing. 2-storey L-shaped farmhouse of whitened rubble with slate roof and rubble gable parapets; end chimneys with capping and weather coursing, that to the L larger and projecting with rubble coped gable, battered to rear. The main, E front stands behind a dwarf-rubble-walled front garden with decorative iron railings. Central entrance with C20 porch with pitched slate roof and plain bargeboards. Wide 6-panel mid-Victorian door with glazed upper panels. To the L a large 6-pane recessed sash window and to the R a smaller 12-pane sash, both C19 and with projecting slate cills. Three 9-pane sashes toupper floor, under the eaves. To the rear a rubble outshut with rubble parapet to L; stepped-up, a catslide porch entrance at intersection with rear arm of subsidiary wing. Within the porch a C17 stopped-chamfered, pegged doorcase with C19 boarded door and a further door to outshut. End chimney to R of whitened rubble later wing; modern window. To the rear, C19 4 and 12-pane sash windows. Adjoining to the L, flush and continuously roofed, a contemporary byre with old slate roof and rubble gable parapet to R; 2 plain entrances with stable doors. To the rear (S) an entrance under the eaves to R. Pegged doorcase and boarded door. To L 2 dormers, the first (to R) higher and of corrugated iron, the far one (L) with catslide roof and only just breaking the eaves; boarded doors.

Interior

L room of main block with main chamfered beam and C20 fireplace in large inglenook opening; boarded partition screen (papered over). C19 boarded partitions to pantry at rear. Large stopped-chamfered end beam to rear wing, carried on a rough stone corbel; ceiling beams with grooved decoration. The adjoining byre has a slate-flagged floor and contemporary 4-bay roof with pegged collar and tie-beam trusses.

Reasons for Listing

An interesting C17 vernacular farm complex retaining good C19 fenestration and some internal detail.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29493347

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)