Audley'S Cross Farmhouse And Attached Ranges Of Farmbuildings

SJ 73 NW LOGGERHEADS C.P A53 (north side) Bloreheath, Tyley

8/138 Audley's Cross Farmhouse and attached ranges of farmbuildings 2/12/52 II

Farmhouse and attached ranges of farmbuildings. Farmhouse: probably partly C17, re-modelled late C18/early C19 with later additions and alterations. Red brick (mainly stretcher bond); plain tiled roofs, hipped with ball finials to slightly projecting taller square corner pavilions. 2 storeys; dentilled eaves cornice; 1:3:1 bays, all C20 casements, those to central section on ground floor projecting, hipped half-dormers above; blocked round-headed arch to left-hand corner bay; brick ridge stack to right of middle bay of central section; C20 entrance in left-hand of 2 parallel 2-storeyed ranges at right angles to rear. Interior: central room of ground floor has chamfered cross beam with run-out stops and chamfered joists; good late C18 staircase with slender turned balusters and ball finial to newel. Attached ranges of farmbuildings: to rear on left, a cowhouse, and at front to right, a cartshed with granary over; both end in square corner blocks with hipped roofs and ball finials, matching style of farmhouse. The farm- buildings are grouped around a cobbled farmyard. An unusual complex unified by the square pavilion-like corner blocks.

Listing NGR: SJ7152635526