Lane End

SJ 52 SE SHAWBURY C.P. MUCKLETON

9/125 Nos. 2 and 3 (Lane 28.10.60 End) (Formerly listed as No 2 and No 3)

• II

Farmhouse, now divided. Probably early C16 with hall range dated 1601. Late C19 and early C20 additions. Timber framed with plastered infill panels on dressed grey sandstone plinth. Rendered brick and grey sandstone rubble addition. Plain tile roofs. Framing: C16 large square panels (3 from sole plate to wall plate) with large curved arched braces. C17 ground-floor close studding with long straight tension braces and first-floor closely-spaced uprights with middle rail. Early C17 baffle- entry hall range of 2 framed bays with flush gabled cross wing to south- west of 2 framed bays. 2 storeys. South-east front: hall range with first floor continuously jettied on 3 sides; posts with hewn stepped brackets. Brick ridge stack off-centre to right (rebuilt above roof in C20) and rendered integral brick end stack at rear of cross wing. 2-window hall range; C19 three-light wooden framed metal casements. Roughly central C20 boarded door, inscribed above: "TIM 1601". Right-hand gable end with blocked first-floor window and jettied gable with quatrefoiled square panels. Cross wing to left with first-floor C20 two-light wooden casement and 2 ground-floor small C19 wooden casements. Gable has truss with cambered tie-beam and central strut (altered). Central entrance in left-hand return front. Early C20 one-storey sandstone rubble service block at rear of hall range. Interior: cross wing has large joists and beams with wide chamfers. Hall range with chamfered spine beams.

Listing NGR: SJ5935821089