Lemmington Branch Farmhouse With Screen Wall And Buildings

A late 18th-century hilltop eyecatcher, incorporating a farmhouse and farmbuildings. The structure is built from squared stone for the screen wall, and rubble with cut dressings elsewhere, with Welsh slate roofs. The overall design is an E-plan, with the farmhouse at the center, flanked by ranges of farmbuildings, and set back behind a westward-facing screen wall with projecting square towers at the centre and each end. The style is Gothic.

The west elevation features a three-storey central tower linked by screen walls to lower end towers, each part topped with an embattled parapet above a chamfered string course. Cruciform loops are located below the tower parapets and in the centre of each screen wall. The central tower has a 12-pane sash window under a pointed arch and a 6-pane sash window above under an ogee arch, both with hoodmoulds. At each end of the screen walls are four-centred doorways; the doorway on the right of the central tower is now within a small pent addition. The doorway on the left of the tower is blocked and has a 12-pane Yorkshire sash window inserted. To the left of this is a three-light window with six-pane casements. The left end tower has two part-slatted windows.

The rear elevation shows a stair window in the gable end of the farmhouse, with a renewed 12-pane sash, and two four-pane sashes. The farmbuilding ranges have boarded doors and part-slatted windows. A cartshed at the east end of the south range features three segmental arches under a hip-ended roof.

Modern asbestos-roofed sheds in front of the north range are not considered to be of special interest.