Number 85 And Attached Outbuilding And Garden Walls

BUXTON

SK0572NW GREEN LANE 616-1/5/112 (South side (off)) No.85 and attached outbuilding and garden walls

GV II

Farmhouse and attached outbuilding and garden wall. Possibly C17, built c1800, with C19 alterations. Whitewashed rubble, stone slate roof and later brick stacks. 2-unit range and former agricultural building. EXTERIOR: 2 storey. Off-centre doorway with plank door, has blocked doorway to left and 2-light casement beyond. To right a 4-pane casement and beyond plank door to outbuilding. Above left 2 small 2-pane windows. Gable ends are blank. Rear has single window to ground floor. INTERIOR: 2 splay windows, one to rear and one to front of right-hand room. Walls are approximately 70cm thick. The low interior suggests that the building had a floor inserted. Beams to both rooms are narrow and deep, that to the right-hand room has triangular stops. This room also has a stone square headed fireplace with machine tooling to lintel. A straight flight of stairs rises from the left-hand room to the upper rooms which are contained within the roof space. The roof has 2 side purlins and a crude ridge pole, rafters are closely set and frequent. Interior of attached agricultural building: open to roof, crude branches used as rafters and also as "tie beams". SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: dry-stone garden walls attached to front. This and No.87 (qv) are reputed to be the remains of the former independent hamlet of Buxton-le-Grene.

Listing NGR: SK0510872508