The Wern Farmhouse

BRILLEY CP - SO 24 NW 4/24 The Wern Farmhouse 19.8.53 GV II Farmhouse. Circa 1400, altered C17, mid-C19 and mid-C20. Part rubble (rendered to rear) and timber-framed with machine tiled roof and three brick ridge stacks, part rubble; timber-framed and weatherboarded with corrugated metal roof. Hall and cross-wing plan; hall part of four cruck-framed bays aligned east/west, including a through-passage bay and having the main chimney backing onto the passage. Cross-wing of three framed bays is situated at the west end and is not in use at present. Single storey and attic with dormers. Framing: not visible externally, South front elevation: windows have timber lintels. There are two 3-light casements and a 2-light casement on the ground floor, two gabled dormers with 3-light casements and a gabled porch on timber posts with a partly-glazed door within. The cross- wing gable end to the left has a door and a loft opening. Interior: two pairs of full cruck blades were visible; five pairs are recorded to survive. The former hall has an inserted C17 ceiling divided into six compartments by stop-chamfered beams. The cross-wing retains much of its medieval roof although it has been raised on the west side. It has three main moulded arch-braced collar trusses, two subsidiary collar and tie-beam trusses with raking struts, two tiers of cusped wind-braces, and two tiers of purlins. (RCHM, III, p 25, item 28; Alcock, NW: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).

Listing NGR: SO2425648644