Middle Herrington Farmhouse And Outbuildings Attached To West

A late 17th or early 18th century farmhouse, with a mid-18th century set-back addition and outbuilding, and 19th century alterations. The house is built of coursed squared sandstone and sandstone rubble, with painted ashlar and brick dressings, and has Welsh slate roofs with brick chimneys. A concrete tiled roof covers the outbuilding. The building follows a linear plan, with the main farmhouse projecting to the left, and rear cross wings attached.

The main house is two storeys high with three windows. It features a central half-glazed door with a plain lintel, and a thin stone lintel, a few courses higher, likely originally belonging to a window. The windows have late 19th century two-pane upper and plain lower sashes, thin stone lintels, and projecting stone sills. The steeply pitched roof has swept eaves on the front slope, and late 19th century yellow brick ridge chimneys on the rear. The left return has similar sashes on each floor.

The set-back addition to the left is two storeys high, with three irregularly spaced windows, and was likely originally a single-storey range raised in the 19th century. A blocked door is at the right, beneath a 19th century chamfered lintel, above which is a stone inscription reading “Sr Edward Smith 1749”. Similar lintels and projecting stone sills are found on the late 19th century sashes, with two windows paired on the ground floor. The roof has end ridge chimneys, and the ridge continues to the right, behind the roof of the main building.

A lower two-storey outbuilding, where the junction with the addition is obscured by patchy mortar, has varied openings, some blocked. It includes a Yorkshire sliding sash at the right, one above under the eaves, and one with 19th-century glazing. The gabled left return has a triangular arrangement of pigeon entrances, complete with slate shelves and brick dividers.

The interior of the house displays late 18th or early 19th century panelled doors leading off a central passage. The outbuilding's roof is constructed with two collars crossed at the ridge, and two levels of purlins morticed into the rafters. The farmhouse represents a rare survival of an older property on the edge of a modern city.