Old Portway Farmhouse

SANDWELL MB PORTWAY HILL SO 98 NE Rowley Regis 8/127 Old Portway Farmhouse 1.11.78 GV II

House. Circa 1600, clad in C19. Timber-framed with outer walls mostly replaced by brick and stone. Tile roof. One storey with attic. Facade has a wide C20 casement window on each side of door, and a smaller window to the right. Chimneys on left-hand gable, to right of second window, and, on front wall, to right of right-hand window. Some timber-framing is exposed on the left-hand gable wall, with square panels below the tie-beam and raking struts to the collar. Interior: four bays with exposed ceiling joists. The left-hand bay has a roughly chamfered spine beam. The ceiling of the second bay is divided into four sections by deeply chamfered main beams, the common joists running in alternate directions. The third bay contains a stone inglenook, re-faced in the mid-C20. Framing on the first floor suggests that it replaces an earlier firehood. On the first floor three tie-beam trusses are visible, with jowled posts, raking struts, and collars.

Listing NGR: SO9708488701