The Farmhouse

SJ 4800-4900 LONGNOR C.P. LONGNOR

9/74 The Farmhouse

• II

Farmhouse. Late C16 and C17 with late C19 alterations. Rendered timber frame, partly rebuilt in painted coursed sandstone rubble and C19 brick; plain tile 3-span roof. Roughly square plan of 3 parallel ranges. Framing: square panels, internally,and rendered externally. 2 storeys and gable- lit attic. South front: roughly central brick stack in first valley, truncated external rubble and brick end stack to right and C20 external brick lateral stack at rear. 2-window front: late C19 three-light wooden casements, segmental-headed to ground floor. Boarded door off-centre to left with C19 gabled brick porch. Triple-gabled return fronts. Interior: right-hand ground-floor front room with moulded beams, and C17 fireplace with chamfered reveals, carved stone lintel, and fluted frieze; left-hand ground-floor front room has C17 fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel returned to chamfered dressed sandstone reveals; early C18 corner cupboard on first-floor landing has pair of doors with 3 raised and fielded panels each and H-hinges, flanking fluted pilasters with moulded bases and capitals but no entasis, moulded round arch and dentil cornice, breaking forward over key with 3 flutes and shaped lower edge. Chamfered beams throughout. Ground- floor rear room with probably C16 chamfered wide joists; chamfered posts; timber framed dividing walls. Many early C18 panelled doors.

Listing NGR: SJ4925600539