Red Lion Farmhouse

WESTON C.P. MAIN ROAD SJ 75 SW 2/53 Red Lion Farmhouse - GV II

Farmhouse (now house). C17 with extensive early C19 rebuilding. Red Flemish bond brick with a plain tile roof. Two storeys. Baffle entry plan. Entrance front: three bays. Ground floor doorway to left of centre with moulded lugged surround of painted stone with raised and fielded panels to the inner sides. Pediment over supported on scroll consoles. Before this is a late C19 timber framed posts with a steeply pitched gabled roof. To the left of this is a three-light ground floor casement window with a basket arch and to the right are two similar windows. Between the floors is a brick band supported in alternately projecting headers. The first floor has 3-light casement windows to right and left and to the right of centre a cambered-headed gabled half-dormer window with quatrefoils to the bargeboards. Clasping buttresses to the extreme right and left and chimneystacks to the right and left hand gable ends and a ridge stack to left of centre. The left hand gable end has a central C19 chimney stack. To the left of this are 3 x 4 cells of small framing with an angle brace to the left hand corner and a jettied gable supported by a moulded bracket. The walling to the right of the chimney stack is flush with the gable and painted in simulation of small framing. The gable has chevron strutting. Projecting wing to the centre of the rear of C17 date with C19 outshuts to either side. Interior: 3-cell plan. Chamfered ceiling beams to ground floor rooms and ingle nook fireplace (now obscured) to parlour. Exposed small framing of original exterior wall to outshut and panels of wattle and daub infill. Queen post truss to rear wing. The sitting room has C17 run-through panelling to the lower walls.

Listing NGR: SJ7336252473