Farmbuilding Immediately To North Of Guilthwaite Hall Farmhouse

SK48NW 7/106

WHISTON PLEASLEY ROAD (west side) Farmbuilding immediately to north of Guilthwaite Hall Farmhouse

GV II

Combination farmbuilding perhaps incorporating some domestic accommodation; now used as store. Mid C17. Coursed, dressed, red sandstone; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with loft. 5 bays (internal). Chamfered plinth, large ashlar quoins. Double-chamfered window surrounds. Doorway to left has monolithic jambs and deep lintel; flanking single-light windows with casements. Continuous dripmould drops down to right and continues over altered 2-light window and doorway in bonded surround with keyed 3-piece lintel. C20 casement to far right in altered surround. External stone steps to lst-floor doorway to right end bay, dripmould rises over lintel and covers single-light window to-right. Near-central, lst-floor hatch formerly of 2-lights, similar opening to its left. Shaped kneelers and roll-moulded gable copings with finial bases at kneelers and apex. Rear: several original windows now blocked and within attached outbuildings (not of special interest). Left return: external steps to lst-floor door; 2-light mullioned window to loft with hoodmould. Right return: doorway to ground-floor left, single-light window to its right with dripmould; lst-floor dripmould beneath 2 single-light openings with dripstones. Interior: corbelled fireplace in lst-floor room to right, old stud partitions and balustrade with lath and plaster infill. Plaster floor to loft over other bays. 4 principal-rafter trusses. A well-preserved building of a rare type in this region.

Listing NGR: SK4495388730