Lower Rileybank Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1970. Farmhouse.
Lower Rileybank Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-panel-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1970
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Rileybank Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the early 17th century and has been altered over time. The front is constructed of small brown bricks in English garden wall bond, while the back is made of sandstone. The roof is covered with grey slates, some of which are large. The building has two storeys and features six windows. Three boarded doors suggest a longhouse-style layout.
To the left, there is a former chapel that now serves as a calf-shed, predominantly built of coursed red sandstone, and it has a blocked chamfered mullioned window in the rear gable. The main block has casement windows with cambered arches on the lower storey.
Inside, the main room has a large, long oak beam with nick-stopped chamfers. The layout follows a lobby-entrance plan, with an inglenook fireplace in the right room and a former inglenook, which was later converted to a fireplace that used to include a bread oven, in the left room. The interior also features oak purlins and a carved sandstone panel in the former chapel, depicting a fleur-de-lys with a cross on each side.
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