The Home Farmhouse

SIDDINGTON C.P. CONGLETON ROAD SJ 87 SW

6/87 The Home Farmhouse.

GV II

Farmhouse. Mid C17 with later additions and alterations. Red English garden wall bond brick with ashlar dressings and stone slate roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: three bays symmetrically disposed. Central C19 front door set in C19 gabled porch with basket arch and stone kneelers, with ball finials to sides and summit. Three-light casement windows to either side with flat-arched heads of gauged brick and stone sills. Cogged band between floors. Three-light casements to either side at first floor level with 2-light window to centre set higher, all with stone sills and flat-arched heads of gauged brick. The central window is imposed upon a former lower window slightly to its left which had a basket arch and is now blocked. This new central window projects upwards through a band formed of two rows of stretchers supported on an alternating row of projecting headers. Raised gable above centre rebuilt in C19 brick with stone kneelers and coping with ball finials to sides and summit. Gable stacks, raised in C19, of 4 flues each. Left hand side: two ground floor single storey projecting wings with 3-light casement windows having flat-arched heads and stone sills. Gables of C19 brick with stone kneelers, coping and ball finials to sides and summit. The two projecting wings are connected by a C20 flat roofed sun porch. Decorated bands between floors as on entrance front. Two blocked windows to gable with flat lintels of herders. Stone kneelers, coping and ball finials to sides.

Listing NGR: SJ8440473490