Warth Farmhouse

HEAPEY COPPICE LANE SD 61 NW White Coppice 10/114 Warth Farmhouse 17.4. 67 - II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably late C17, altered and extended in C18 and subsequently. Sandstone rubble in watershot coursing (topmost courses of larger blocks), stone slate roof with brick chimney at left gable. Two-bay end-baffle-entry plan, with stable added at right hand end, and another addition at left end. Two storeys (raised), except left addition which is single storey;high plinth to original part, which has former doorway at left end altered as window, former 3-light mullioned window to the right raised and altered as casement (chamfered sill and jambs remain), a mid-level single-light stairwindow to the right of this, and a window made in an inserted doorway to the 2nd bay: at 1st floor a chamfered single-light above the original door and two 2-light recessed mullion windows lacking mullions. Continuation to right, formerly a stable, of random rubble, has altered openings; addition to left, of similar masonry, has in left return wall a 2-light window with square flush mullion, and a door. Rear has ground floor windows with chamfered flush mullions and slab hoodmoulds, of 2, 2, and 3 lights (last lacking mullions), and a lean-to porch. Interior: altered (partitions removed) but has one large chamfered beam in the former housepart, and another in the former service end. (Item is altered example of unusual and localised type on this plan: others include Morris Farmhouse and Farmhouse Cliff Farmhouse in this parish).

Listing NGR: SD6145119096