Rancliffe Farmhouse

Rancliffe Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating to 1736, designed by and built for Sir Thomas Parkyns of Bunny Hall. It is constructed of red brick, incorporating some black brick and rubble, with plain tile roofs. Each ridge has a single large red brick stack, and the gables feature brick copings with corbelled-out kneelers. A raised eaves band runs around the building, and there is a splayed rubble and brick plinth. The farmhouse has a double-depth plan, is two storeys high, and includes a cellar and garret, with two gabled bays. The cellar has four blocked segmental arches. Above, on each floor, are two glazing bar casements, all with segmental arched brick hood moulds. A similar arched blocked opening sits between the ground floor windows. In the left gable apex, the letters "Sir T.P." are inscribed in black brick headers, and the right gable bears the date "1736". The doorway is in the right wall and features a segmental arched fielded panel reveal and a panelled door, both with a matching hood mould. A single-storey red brick wing with a plain tile roof and a right-hand red brick gable stack is attached to the right of the main house and set back; this wing has no openings. Following a fire in 1705, much of the village of Bradmore was rebuilt by Sir Thomas Parkyns to his own designs.