Shelfield Farmhouse

WORTHEN C.P. - SO 39 NW

9/95 Shelfield Farmhouse -

• II

Farmhouse. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with brick infill and front wall rebuilt in stone, now roughcast; slate roof. 5 bay baffle-entry plan. One storey and attic; late C20 casement fenestration, 4 windows to ground floor, including one to left of half-glazed door in lean-to projection, and 3 gabled eaves dormers; subsidiary entrance through boarded door immediately to right of left window. Red brick ridge stack directly above half-glazed door. Interior: timber frame partly exposed to back wall (renewed) and square panels to cross walls; ground-floor room to right of stack (which has large inglenook fireplace) has massive chamfered cross beam supported on cast-iron column to front (presumably contemporary with rebuilding of front walls) and heavy joists; straight-flight oak staircase behind stack. Ground-floor room to far right has C19 shelves inset in wall to right of fireplace; plank and muntin doors with pointed strap hinges throughout and original floor boards to first floor. Collar and tie beam roof in 5 bays (including chimney bay) has exposed trusses; large stepped brick stack concealed by plasterboard at time of resurvey (December 1985). Prominent 2-storey C19 addition attached to right is not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SO3431199859