Bearstone Grange

SJ 73 NW WOORE C.P. BEARSTONE

7/143 Bearstone Grange 10.2.59 (formerly listed as Bearstone Farmhouse)

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Farmhouse, now house. Mid-C16 with C19 alterations and additions. Timber framed with painted brick nogging on painted dressed sandstone plinth, partly rebuilt in red brick (painted to front and still on old sandstone plinth). Slate roofs. Framing: square panels (4 from sole plate to wall plate at front and 3 at side) with parallel diagonal struts forming lozenge patterns, and closely-spaced studs beneath windows. L-plan; 2-bay hall range with 3-bay gabled cross wing projecting to right. 2 storeys. Brick ridge stack off-centre to left, integral brick end stacks and external lateral brick stack to cross wing. Hall range: 2 first-floor C20 three-light wooden casements and 2 ground floor segmental- headed C20 three-light wooden casements flanking central 2-light C20 wooden casement. All with tiled cills. C20 flat-roofed brick porch in angle of cross wing to right with C20 six-panelled door (top 2 panels glazed) and coped parapet. Cross wing: jettied first floor to front with moulded bressumer supported on corner post with splayed feet, hewn brackets and cable-moulded shafts,and jettied gable with carved and moulded cambered tie-beam. Both ground-floor and gable jetties also supported on 6 small shaped brackets springing from short billet-ornamented rails flanking windows. First-floor four-light wooden casement and ground- floor C20 canted bay of 1:3:1 lights. Gable above with collar, king struts, diagonal struts forming lozenge pattern, and plain barge boards with finial. Left-hand return front of cross wing with small C20 first- floor casement to left. Interior: C16 deep-chamfered ceiling beams. Chamfered jowl post. Exposed framing with angle braces and at least one truss with cambered tie beam. Entrance hall with deep-chamfered beam and chamfered beam with ogee stops. Old door to cross wing of double construction (vertical and horizontal planks) and with wrought- iron strap hinges. Central ground-floor room: large open fireplace with deep heavily-moulded C16 wooden lintel. Left-hand ground-floor room(kitchen) with reset large chamfered wooden fireplace lintel.

Listing NGR: SJ7243139740