Lower Benns Farmhouse

STOCK LANE 1. 1164 Lower Benns Farm House SE 02 NE 3/400 II. GV 2. C17. Timber-framed, Coursed rubble with large quoins, but mainly rendered. Stone slate roof. Two storeys, although the second storey is only visible in the gable end since it is a two-aisled long house, Five bays, 3 to the barn, 2 to the house, divided by a masonry wall which the hearth backs on to. King post trusses braced to ridge, on posts which are braced to both ties and to aisle plates: all intact. Principal elevation is in west gable end. Ground floor has two three-light stone mullioned windows with unmoulded flat drip stones (both with mullions removed). First floor has two two-light stone mullioned with hollow chamfers and one single light window. South elevation has one three-light hollow chaniferred stone mullioned window, and one much larger two-light hollow chamferred stone mullioned window (mullion removed): from its size and the fact that the room it lights is heated this may have been the hall window. Barn entrances it recessed porches on cross axis. Group value.

Listing NGR: SE0450526973