L Shaped Range Of Farm Building Attached By Wall To High Ash Farmhouse

TUSHINGHAM CUM GRINDLEY C.P. CHESTER ROAD A41 SJ 54 SW (West side) 5/84 L-shaped range of farm building attached by wall to High Ash farmhouse. GV II

Farm buildings containing shippon, barn, stables, coach-house and hay lofts, 1819, the west wing of Flemish bond brown brickwork with pale headers, the south-east wing of 2 storeys in English garden wall bond; graded grey slate roofs. The west wing is almost symmetrical: driftway in corner under basket arch; coach-house door in full-height arched recess near outer end; slightly projecting centrepiece with coped gable has arched recess containing round-arched barn doorway, hoist-arm to loft above and datestone panel inscribed TB:1819. Basket-arched doorways left and right of centre, the latter altered; basket-arched loading doorways to loft; 3 "diamond-and-a-half" brick vents. The south-east wing is of 3 storeys with basket and segmental brick arches. All doors are boarded, some divided. Sandstone padstones, keystones, hinge and latch-stones. The outer sides, more simply detailed, have similar openings, some altered, and 5 pitching eyes, one enlarged into a round-headed loading door. Diamond and diamond-and-a-half brick vents to upper storeys. A handsome range which groups well with the farmhouse, linked by a wall.

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