Lower Sweeney Farmhouse

SJ 22 NE 5/160

OSWESTRY RURAL C.P. A 483 (west side) Lower Sweeney Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Probably c.1840 but possibly on earlier site. Dressed coursed sandstone blocks with painted ashlar dressings, slate roofs with coped verges on stone kneelers. H-plan with central hall range flanked by gabled cross-wings in late C17 vernacular style. 2 storeys, moulded eaves cornice; 1:2:1 bays, mid-C19 wooden mullioned and transomed windows with moulded dripstones and metal glazing bars (2 lights to hall range and 3 to cross-wings), that to upper left in oriel, rectangular chamfered slit openings to gables; windows to left return (except lower right) blind and painted in imitation; gabled porch in angle with left gable has coped verges on stone kneelers, elliptical outer arch with blank armorial shield above and panelled inner door with latticed sidelights; yellow brick ridge stacks with 4 attached octagonal shafts to left and right of hall range and to right gable, which extends to rear. Interior: parallel unchamfered ceiling beams in ground-floor rooms; C19 staircase and plank and panelled doors. A prominently sited house included as an unaltered example of the C19 revival of a style similar to substantial C17 farmhouses in the region.

Listing NGR: SJ2848625385