Bradkirk Hall Farmhouse

MEDLAR WITH WESHAM WEETON ROAD SD 43 SW 9/43 Bradkirk Hall Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse, dated 1764 on lintel of door. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Double-depth 3-bay 4-room plan. Two storeys, symmetrical; central doorway with large lintel bearing a prominent keystone lettered "E:H 1764" (=Edward Hurst), set in a round-headed recess; 4 windows at ground floor and 5 above, all 12-pane sashes with stone sills and gauged brick heads; coved cornice, stone gable copings with small kneelers, gable chimneys. Left return wall has one window at ground floor, 2 above, (and one at least covered by ivy), and a simplified Venetian attic window (outer lights blocked). Rear wall stepped, the 1st bay set back and probably blind (but covered by creeper) a door in the re-entrant, but otherwise has 3-light windows with chamfered flush mullions: 3 vertically-aligned stairlights in the centre, and one on each floor of the 3rd bay; the latter partly covered by overlapping lower 2-storey service extension. Interior: brick-vaulted cellar; original fireplaces in 3rd bay with corbelled jambs, deep lintels and moulded cornices; doors and doorcases throughout with fielded panels; full-height staircase with open string, three balusters per tread, ramped handrail; attic with slatted door for ventilation of storage room, unusual roof trusses with elbowed struts.

Listing NGR: SD4088033478