Home Farmhouse

SJ 30 NE WESTBURY C.P. HEM LANE, Westley (South-east side)

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Farmhouse. Late C18 or early C19, probably with an earlier core. Red brick with slate roof. 3-room plan. 3 storeys. Dentil brick eaves cornice; brick ridge stack off-centre to right and external brick end stack to left. 3-window front; 3-light segmental-headed C19 wooden casements except for 2-light central first-floor window, and 2-light central second-floor window with flanking blind windows; central segmental- headed C20 half-glazed door and segmental-headed boarded door to far left. One-storey lean-to addition at rear with lateral brick stack. C19 probably former service wing and stable attached to left; 2 storeys; C20 partial rebuilding and refenestration; C20 glazed door off-centre to left and 2-leaf boarded door to far left; boarded loft door in left- hand gable end. Interior not inspected, but said to contain some re- used timbers. V.C.H. Vol. VIII, p. 306. C. Ryan, The evolution of the peasant house in Shropshire. Medieval - c. 1850. The Parish of Westbury, Unpublished thesis (October 1979), Manchester University, pp. 141-2.

Listing NGR: SJ3632806945