Fircroft And Adjoining Haybarn

SO 47 SE 4/25

ELTON CP

Fircroft and adjoining haybarn

II

House and adjoining haybarn. Late C16 with mid-C19 and late C20 alterations. Timber-framed on rubble base with some rubble and brick walling concealed beneath sheets of hardboard painted to resemble timber-framing. Corrugated metal roof with overhanging eaves, hipped at east end and with brick stack at west end of ridge. Two framed bays aligned east/west. Two storeys. No framing exposed externally. South front elevation: there is a C19 bay window with a lean-to roof in the west bay, a single-light first floor casement in the east bay and the main entrance, in the west bay has a C19 gabled timber porch with trellis infill and a partly-glazed door. There is a C19 square metal window on both floors at the east end. Interior has some substantial exposed timbers. Haybarn adjoins west end. Timber-framed and weatherboarded with corrugated iron roof, hipped at west end. Single framed bay plus hipped-roofed bay with lean-to at west end. Partly two levels. Three panels from sill to wall-plate. There is a truncated collar and tie- beam roof truss at the west end of the main bay. Main entrance in south elevation. Also door and loft opening to hipped-roofed part. The western- most bay of the haybarn has probably been rebuilt and the barn re-roofed.

Listing NGR: SO4703470020