No. 27, Pitchford

No. 27 in Pitchford is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with later alterations. It features a timber frame with painted brick nogging, weatherboarding, and some areas that are cement-rendered. The roof is plain and fishscale tiled. The building has a T-plan layout, consisting of two or three framed bays aligned north-south, with an east wing that has two framed bays. It is one storey high with an attic.

The west front has three large brick buttresses, likely from the late 19th century, and a gabled eaves dormer is located to the south of the east wing. There is a lateral external brick stack on the southwest side and a brick ridge stack on the east wing. The framing consists of square panels, with four panels running from the sole-plate to the wall-plate, and long straight tension braces.

On the west front, there is a first-floor 19th-century wooden casement window that is off-centre to the right. The central ground floor features a 19th-century two-light wooden casement, while to the left is a probably late 18th-century or early 19th-century two-light horizontal sliding sash window. A boarded door is located off-centre to the left. The left-hand gable end reveals an exposed collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and v-struts, along with pairs of purlin ends.

The interior of the main range has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest. The east wing contains a chamfered ceiling beam and a collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts in the gable end.