Home Farmhouse

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SJ 63 SE 11/146

LOGGERHEADS C.P Peatswood Tyrley BERRISFORD ROAD Home Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Home Farmhouse, BERESFORD ROAD)

17/11/66

GV II Farmhouse. Probably C17, dismantled, removed from its original location and re-erected on its present site in 1904 to 1906. Timber framed on red brick plinth with cement rendered brick infill, stone slate roofs.

Originally 'L'-shaped as now (except early C20 additions to rear) but in the process of re-erection the axis was changed, the front becoming the back and vice versa. Two storeys; "hall" of two ½ framed bays and "cross-wing" of two, only slightly projecting to front and mainly to rear.

Framing: much renewed (see below); square panels, three from cill to wall plate and short tension braces; "cross-wing" has jowled wall posts and V-struts from the collar. Irregular fenestration, all early C20 leaded casements of two, three and four lights, one to first and three to ground floor of "hall" and one to each floor of "cross-wing"; large red brick stacks, to left-hand gable end of "hall" and to ridge and gable end of "cross-wing", the latter stepped out to ground. Entrances to rear in two-storied early C20 red brick additions, built in angle between "hall" and "cross-wing". The single-storied lean-to to left of the "cross-wing" end stack has a two-light C17 leaded casement, brought from Arclyd, a now demolished house in Cheshire.

Interior: chamfered cross beams to ground floor with ox-tongue chamfer stops; in the kitchen (to the rear) an oak door dated 1709. An inscription (1905) on the "cross-wing" end stack records that "the oak timber work of this house is as far as was found possible a reproduction using the old materials of that of the house at Betchton near Sandbach in Cheshire". It is known, however, that other timbers, taken from old houses in the Market Drayton area, were also used in the reconstruction.

Re-erected for use as a bailiff's house, the building is included partly as an early C20 example of the preservation of an historic structure by removal to a new site. Listing NGR: SJ6920133756