Lower House Farmhouse

SJ 41 NW; 5/136

LITTLE NESS C.P., LITTLE NESS, Lower House Farmhouse

GV

II

Farmhouse. C14 or C15 with C16 cross wing, all much rebuilt in the mid-to late C19. Red brick, partly rendered, incorporating a timber-framed core partly of cruck construction. Slate roofs. L-plan; former hall house of three framed bays with projecting gabled cross wing to left of three framed bays. One storey and attic with cross wing of two storeys and gable-lit attic. Central truncated brick ridge stack to hall range, and brick ridge stack and external brick end stack to cross wing. Hall range: small attic casement beneath eaves off-centre to left and ground- floor segmental-headed 2-light wooden casement off-centre to right, formerly a doorway (see straight joints beneath). Boarded loft door in right- hand gable end. Rear with hipped eaves dormer, two segmental-headed openings to left (one a garage and the other blocked) and various inserted C20 casements. Cross wing: 2-windows to gable end; 2-and 3-light segmental- headed wooden casements. Right-hand return front with two segmental-headed 2-light wooden casements to first floor and one to ground floor, and segmental-headed half-glazed 4-panelled door to left with gabled porch.

INTERIOR: hall range formerly a hall house with a one-bay floored end to left and a 2-or 3-bay open hall to right. Cruck frames with cambered collars, that at the right-hand end with peg holes for former arched bracing. Single purlins with curved wind braces. Left-hand ground-floor room has a pair of probably C14 or C15 deep-chamfered ceiling beams with ogee stops, resting on shaped brackets at left-hand end. Ground-floor rear room of cross wing with two chamfered ceiling beams, and fireplace with roll-moulded segmental wooden lintel. C17 panelled doors and old nail-studded boarded door to first floor.

Listing NGR: SJ4074819703