Top House Farmhouse

BICKLEY C.P. WHITCHURCH ROAD (A41) SJ 54 NW (East Side), No Man's Heath 3/14 Top House Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse, now house, circa 1700, of irregular Flemish bond brown brickwork with steep grey slate roof. 2 storeys; 3 windows. Band of 2 separated raised courses of brick at 1st floor; parapet end gables; flush gable chimneys, that to left rebuilt above 1st floor in red brick. Boarded oak door in C19 gabled open porch. Mid C19 iron casements to front; 2 leaded casements at back. Interior: Inglenook in front room left with indications of former inglenook in kitchen behind. Corner fireplaces in front and back right rooms. A chamfered oak beam and oak joists in each front room; ceiling to right room also has diagonal beam parallel with corner chimney. Oak-framed spine wall upstairs. 2 doors of broad overlapping oak boards downstairs, 1 plain broad-board oak door upstairs. Stair of oak with newels, shaped square rail and 2 turned balusters per step.

Listing NGR: SJ5153447952