Northycote Farmhouse And Attached Cartsheds And Cowhouse

WOLVERHAMPTON

SJ90SW UNDERHILL LANE 895-1/2/83 (North side) 03/02/77 Northycote Farmhouse and Attached Cartsheds and Cowhouse

GV II

Farmhouse, now 2 units, and attached cart shed and cow house. c1600 with C18 additions and early C19 rebuilding; restored 1980s. Timber-framed range with brick additions to each end, tile hanging to 1st floor of left end; brick farm buildings; tile roofs with brick stacks. Lobby-entrance plan form, with 2-window additions; rear washhouse attached by short wall; 2 ranges of farm buildings forming cross of T-plan. 2 storeys; 3-window timber-framed range. Timber-framed range of close studding with gable to left; C20 mullioned windows; segmental-headed windows to left have small-paned iron glazing; left end has C20 casements, return has jettied 1st floor, casement windows; casement windows to right end; central entrance has plank door; large central cross-axial stack has diagonal shafts and later caps, cross-axial stack to either side. Rear similar; timber framing extends further to left; one remaining C16 five-light wooden-mullioned window; 2-storey gabled porch with cogged frieze over elliptical-headed entrance; entrance to right has C20 timber porch. INTERIOR: timber-framed cross walls; stepped-stop-chamfered beams; wide fireplace with moulded bressummer and brick fire hood; stone fireplace with key, re-used C17 panelling and 4-panel door with H-L hinges to room to left. 1st floor has carpenters' marks to collar trusses, some daub and wattle infill. Subsidiary features: rear washhouse has deep pentice to right return; end stack; interior has fireplace, oven and copper. Cow house projects to right, C18 brickwork to left return; higher end cross wing with ventilation holes and windows; right return has 3 segmental-headed entrances and 4 windows; wing has entrance and window and attached gatepier; interior has rear feeding passage and C20 partitions. Cart shed to rear right has elliptical-headed through passage and 5 cart openings; varied windows and pitching holes; rear 1st floor entrance up steps.

Listing NGR: SJ9294903209