Lime Tree Farmhouse And Attached Shippon

Lime Tree Farmhouse and attached shippon is a later 18th-century building, originally a farmhouse, cottage, and farm building, now a cottage converted to a shop. It is located in Ellesmere Port & Neston, originally within the civil parish of Little Stanney, but now transferred. The farmhouse is constructed of English garden wall bond red brick, with a Welsh slate roof and two gable brick chimneys. The main front is two storeys and five bays, with the three left bays forming a near-symmetrical farmhouse. It has three-light wooden casements without glazing bars, set under rough-brick segmental heads on the end bays. Similar two-light casements are above a two-panelled door, which is set under a gabled hood. There is a blank attic, brick corbelling under the eaves, and a single added dormer in the roof. A lower former cottage was added to the right and has similar two-light casements, with a shop front in the gable end. At a right angle to the rear is a two-storey farm building, with a shippon below and a hayloft containing a line of diamond-pattern ventilation holes. The interior has not been inspected, but is said to be of interest.