Home Farmhouse

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SK 00 SE SHENSTONE ALDRIDGE ROAD

1908-1/0/10002 Home Farmhouse

• II

House. Early C19. Painted render and pebbledash over brick, with some stone dressings. Tiled roof with coped gables. Double-depth plan with main facade facing south and with 3 gables to rear. The facade is of 2 storeys plus an attic storey with blind recesses, of 3 bays, and has chamfered quoins. The windows are glazing bar sashes with plain reveals and projecting sills. The central doorway has pilaster strips, brackets supporting a flat moulded stone hood which carries an added timber hood, and 2 external sandstone steps with nosings. The door is of 3 panels, now glazed, and has a fanlight. At the rear of the main range are 2 large chimney caps. Interior. Extensive barrel-vaulted cellars. The doors are mostly of 6 raised and fielded panels and some original fireplaces remain. The ground and first-floor rooms to the front and left-hand side have plain plaster cornices. Arched openings with plaster mouldings lead off the stairwell on each storey: the ground-floor hallway has 2 arches. The open-well staircase rises to attic level. The lower flight has an open string with shaped tread brackets and the upper flights have closed strings. The turned newels and ramped handrails are of walnut. The treads are of oak and the stick balusters are painted.

Listing NGR: SK0900500714