Dairy House Farmhouse

SJ 88 SE WILMSLOW FORMER U.D. DAIRY HOUSE LANE (West Side)

2/279 Dairy House Farmhouse.

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Farmhouse: early C18 with some small C19 and C20 alterations. English garden wall bond orange brick. Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge and 4 brick chimneys. 2 and 2½-storey 7-bay south front. Raised brick band at 1st floor. Right 3 bays of 2½ storeys have 3-light C20 copies of wooden mullioned and transomed windows with glazing bars under flat wedged brick heads flanking added gabled porch with a 4-panelled door behind. Above is a mullioned and transomed window in a gabled half dormer. 3 bays to left, of 2 storeys, are part of original building with similar mullioned and transomed windows and a blocked fire window below 2-light casements above. Left end bay is part of an added then converted farm building. To rear are original windows with one of the top panels sliding horizontally. Interior: has dogleg oak stair with square newels, heavy square handrail and a similar rail halfway down. 2 3-board doors in lower storeys and complete set to attic. Chamfered ceiling beams and firebeam in room at left end, and a room to rear still is a dairy with stone flag ledges and central table.

Listing NGR: SJ8757183681