Lake House

SJ 74 SE WHITMORE C.P. HEATH ROAD, Limepits

5/174 Lake House

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Farmhouse, now house. C17 with considerable later additions and alterations, principally of late C19 and mid-to-late C20. Timber framed on sandstone plinth with painted brick infill and additions; late C19 machine tiled roofs with fishscale bands. Hall and cross-wing extended and converted. 2 storeys; hall probably of 2½ framed bays with slightly projecting jettied cross-wing to right. Framing: much renewed; irregular square and rectangular panels with short tension braces; jowled wall post to left gable end, which is partly brick clad. Irregular fenestration, 3 small mid-C20 casements to ground floor and 3 to first. Jettied cross- wing much altered; late C20 door and flanking windows to ground, planted framing and C20 bay window above. 2-storeyed late C19 painted brick addition to rear with C20 ridge stack; a further extension to right of cross-wing has C20 timber framing in imitation of C17 work.

Listing NGR: SJ7982341612