Deanery Farmhouse And Cottage With Attached Barn

LANCHESTER DURHAM ROAD NZ 1647 (East side) Lanchester

13/75 Deanery Farmhouse 16.4.86 and Cottage with attached barn (formerly listed as Deanery Farm Cottages and farm buildings attached)

GV II

House with farm storage, C18; barn added early C19; storage and part of barn converted to domestic use late C19. Roughly-coursed rubble with irregular quoins to house, square quoins to barn. House roof stone-flagged, barn French tiles, rear outshuts corrugated asbestos. Brick and stone stacks.

House 2 storeys, 2 wide bays. Boarded door at left, C20 door at right. Late C19 sashes in box frames at left, early C20 cross casements at right, small C19 casement at far right on first floor; all have stone sills and lintels, those of cross casements renewed. Gutter and flat stone eaves course to graduated stone-flagged roof with top course of alternating 'jack tiles' forming the ridge. Corniced central stack with 3 hexagonal pots.

Lower 2-storey, irregular 3-bay barn extension has 2 doors in alternating jambs, 3 slits, 2 boarded and one slatted openings; cross casements on both floors at left (domestic part). Rear outshut along domestic parts.

Interior: tie-and-collar-beam roof trusses with principals crossed at apex to form seating for a stout ridge piece which supports the jack tiles.

Listing NGR: NZ1673547457