Orchard Farmhouse

SP 1037 BROADWAY CP HIGH STREET (south side) 9/117 No 149 (Orchard Farmhouse) 30.7.59 GV II House. Early C17, extended and altered early C20 by A N Prentice. Lime- stone rubble with stone slate roof. Comprises a main range of three bays and a gabled cross-wing at the right (west). Two storeys with attic. Windows are rebated and chamfered with mullions, mostly with hoods. The cross-wing has a 5-light window on the ground floor, one of four lights on the first floor, and a 2-light attic window. Its left-hand return wall has a two- storey narrow gabled projection which has a one-light window with Tudor- arched head on each floor. The two left-hand bays of the main range, which may be a later addition, have 2-light windows and one attic dormer. The right-hand bay has a 5-light ground floor window and one of four lights above, partly within a gable. To its left is a small one-light window over the doorway, which is moulded with Tudor-arched head and a hood with lozenge stops. Chimney on left-hand gable, which is coped, has moulded cornice. Other chimneys, in line with doorway and to left of cross-wing, have diagonal shafts, lozenge friezes, and dentilled cornices. Adjoining to the left are early C20 additions of one storey. Set back immediately to the left is a range which has four mullioned windows and an attic lit by two flat-headed dormers. Adjoin- ing it at the left and set further back is a range which has two mullioned windows. At right-angles at the right is a former barn, converted to form part of the house and include a music room by Prentice. It has mullioned windows and its upper storey is lit by two gabled windows facing east. Below the northern gable is a 5-light window with two transoms. The south gable wall has a sundial plaque dated "1915".

Listing NGR: SP1051437539