Former Cottage And Farmbuildings Adjoining Lower Eyton Farmhouse To East

SJ 31 SE 5/45

ALBERBURY WITH CARDESTON C.P. EYTON Former cottage and farmbuildings adjoining Lower Eyton Farmhouse to east

GV II

Cottage and farmbuildings, now store and farmbuildings. Probably C16 or C17 with C18 and C19 alterations and additions. Timber framed, eastern parts of cruck construction, with red brick nogging, partly rebuilt in coursed Alberbury breccia rubble and red brick, with squared and coursed Alberbury breccia plinth to east. L-plan, forming U-plan with farmhouse (qv)to west; hipped plain tile and corrugated asbestos roof. Former cottage of 2 framed bays to west with adjoining cow houses of 2 bays and 3-bay barn returning to south. One storey and loft and one storey and attic. Framing: square panels, only one panel on high brick base (probably reused timbers). North front: 2 gabled eaves dormers to right with 2-light wooden casements; glazed loft opening to left; boarded-over cottage window to right with segmental brick head; cow house window off-centre to left; 3 boarded doors to loft, that to right with 2 leaves and segmental head; left-hand return front with 2 loft openings and doorway to left. Segmental-headed boarded door at rear of former cottage. Collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts exposed in gable end to rear of barn range. Interior: former cottage, latterly dairy: cambered collar and tie-beam trusses with queen struts; butt purlins with wind braces; angle braces; one bay has chamfered beams and joists with run-out stops and the other bay has a quarter-round moulded beam and a chamfered beam and joists with ogee stops; probably C17 newel staircase; barn: 2 full cruck trusses with tie beams and collars, that to south with tension brace to tie-beam appears to have an Alcock apex-type F3 with diagonally-placed ridge piece, and that to north with Alcock apex-type E; single purlins; bay adjoining to west has a collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts. Evidence of probable smoke blackening of the cruck trusses suggests that the barn might have been domestic in origin. The farmbuildings adjoin Lower Eyton Farmhouse (qv) to the east. Alcock, pp. 96 and 143. -

Listing NGR: SJ3764414052