Wool Greaves Farmhouse

SE 20 NE CAWTHORNE SOUTH LANE (south side)

3/71 Wool Greaves Farmhouse 18.3.68

GV Il*

Farmhouse. Dated 1672. Thinly-coursed rubble with quoins. Stone slate roof (re-roofed) L-plan, 2 bays with cross-wing on right. Two storeys. Double- chamfered windows with hoodmoulds. Entrance to left with quoined surrounds and Tudor-arched lintel inscribed:

"Intret fides exeot fraus J.M. 1672 R.M."

Hoodmould continues over a 5-light window to right above which is a further 5-light window. The gabled wing has a 4-light window to each floor with evidence of a doorway to left of ground-floor window. Oculus and dove perches in gable apex. Hollow-chamfered gable copings on moulded kneelers. Ashlar stack to left and to centre of wing. Rear (to road): 3-light windows under hoodmoulds to gabled left bay with oculus in apex. Finials at verges. One single and two 2-light windows to right, and a 2-light window to 1st floor.

Interior: moulded bressumer across left room with arch cut cut for the door. Panelled screen to heck-post forms the lobby. The right post has gone. Right end of bressumer and right spine beam are grooved for partitions. The stair at rear is enclosed in panelling.

A good and relatively complete example of the type.

Listing NGR: SE2674806133