Top Farmhouse

ADMINGTON

SP14NE UPPER ADMINGTON 1912-1/5/12 Top Farmhouse 05/04/67

GV II

Farmhouse. C17. Regular coursed limestone rubble. Steeply pitched hipped graduated stone slate roof with stone and brick end stack and external lateral stack. L-plan with re-entrant wings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; 4-window range. Entrance to left of centre has single-chamfered reveals and 2-light overlight, plank door and C20 gabled porch. Ground floor has recessed-cross-mullioned windows, one to left of entrance and 3 to right, 2 being grouped together with entrance. 1st floor has similar windows; 3 original hipped roof dormers with 2-light casements, one small-paned, one blocked, one leaded. Right return is 4-window range, said to have originally been longer, entrance to left of centre with 2-light overlight to plank door; windows with leaded cross-casements, 2 to 1st floor are blocked, one with visible iron bars. Rear has wing to left with projecting end stack with renewed shaft and coped gable; later wide gabled wing to centre has small window with pegged frame and segmental-headed window with brick arch over leaded cross-casement, 2 windows to 1st floor with 2-light casements; gabled wing to right end has forward break to right of brick lean-to porch to former entrance, and windows with timber lintels. Left return has single-storey hipped wing with garage door to rear; to left an entrance with plank door and window to each floor with 2-light casement, that to 1st floor has weatherboarding over leaded casement and board painted with words: CHEESE ROOM; to right a large external lateral stack with renewed shaft, entrance to right end has timber lintel over studded plank door. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP1974845080