Mayo Farmhouse

TARLETON PLOX BROW SD 42 SE 4/60 No.17 (Mayo Farmhouse) 11.10.1968 GV II

Farmhouse. Dated 1635 on porch (1685 when 1st listed); altered. White painted render on handmade brick, slate roof. Three-bay baffle-entry plan with addition to rear of 2nd and 3rd bays. Two storeys; single storey gabled porch, in line with ridge chimney at junction of 1st and 2nd bays, has slightly-arched outer doorway with panelled raised lettering on the lintel, the lettering now worn and almost illegible: ( ) 1635 R ( ), inner board door with strap hinges and pegged wooden doorcase; to left, 1st bay is set back (continued eaves overhanging here); 3 windows on each floor, all large modern alterations. Right-hand gable wall has a partly-blocked 6-light mullioned window at 1st floor, with a label. Rear altered. Interior: 1st and 2nd bays have back-to-back inglenook fireplaces, that in the 2nd bay with cyma-stopped chamfered bressummer, 2 similarly decorated beams tenoned into it; formerly 2 doorways to 3rd bay, one now blocked; partition between 2nd and 3rd bays timber framed with wattle-and-daub panels (concealed).

Listing NGR: SD4545120792