Booths Farmhouse

IPSTONES C.P. BELMONT ROAD SK 04 NW (south side) 10/194 Booth's Farmhouse 3.1.67

GV II

Farmhouse. Dated 1663 with late C19 alterations. Very large coursed dressed red sandstone; tiled roof; verge parapets with corbelled kneelers; brick end stack to left and ridge stack left of centre; long, low 2-storey front of 3 windows; left side has 2 widely-spaced 2- and 4-light labelled chamfered mullioned casements to the ground floor and the right side has a similar 4-light window under a C19 two-light casement (the only first-floor window); the elevation is divided to right of centre by a 2-storey gabled porch projection of greater eaves height than the house; the gable is blind other than a small oculus to the centre of the first floor set in a square block with inscribed circles in angles; later 'peephole' to ground floor. Original entrance to right side of porch (now blocked) under Tudor arch with moulded inset spandrels and 2-light mullioned casement above. Rear elevation has large dormer of 4 labelled mullioned lights (possibly of later construction than the body of the house) dated on an inset plaque in moulded surround: AB presumably referring to a member of 1663 the Booth family.

Listing NGR: SK0135248788