South Farmhouse

BERRINGTON C.P. EATON MASCOTT SJ 50 NW 3/61 South Farmhouse - GV II

Farmhouse. Late C17, extended and remodelled in the mid-to late C19. Painted brick on red sandstone ashlar and red brick plinth; 2-span plain tile roof. C17 block with C19 addition to north-west; 2 parallel ranges aligned north-east/south-west (see straight joint in south-east front to left of door); remodelled in a Tudor Gothic style. 2 storeys and attic. Chamfered plinth to C17 range; 2 gables to front with scalloped barge boards and finials and gabled dormer to south of north range with 2-light leaded casement; ridge stack to north range with 3 diagonally-placed brick shafts, and external C17 brick end stack to rear of south range with 2 star-shaped shafts. 3-window front; first-floor C19 wooden cross windows and ground-floor 3-light wooden casements with transoms, all with returned wooden hoodmoulds; central half-glazed door with chamfered surround and C19 gabled wooden arch with chamfered posts, arch-braces, boarded tympanum, scalloped barge boards, and panelled finial. Left-hand return front has 2 first-floor blocked C17 flat-faced mullioned stone windows. Small C20 addition in angle at rear. H.E. Forrest F.L.S., Some Old Shropshire Houses and their Owners, 1924, p. 91.

Listing NGR: SJ5367505816