Shellow Cross Farmhouse

TL 60 NW WILLINGALE SHELLOW ROAD (North Side), 6/16 Shellow Cross Farmhouse, II

Farmhouse, Mid C17, timber framed and plastered with fragments of old chevron pargetting on rear wall. Two storeys and attics with peg tiled gabled roof and peg tile gabled, one storey and attics block at rear with 2 gabled C20 dormers in east facing slope. Rear 3 storey stair tower with gabled peg tile roof. Further single storey gabled outhouse extending out to rear with red brick and tarred weatherboarded walls and with hipped roofed similar tarred boarded wall block making northern termination. Off-centre 'L' shaped ridge line stack and smaller stack against west gable wall. Front has 3 tripartite double hung sash windows, with single central vertical glazing bars (all C20 replicas). Ground floor is similar but with C20 peg tile gable enclosed porch off-centre. East end has original moulded bargeboards. Rear one storey and attics brewhouse range of mid C17 timber framing with big C18 arched, iron reinforced inglenook fireplace in old end smoke bay. Of 4 equal bays of substantial timber framing with much reused timber some seemingly C14 and C15. Unjowled posts and unusual massive side purlin windbraced roof with interrupted tie beams to internal vertical posts in attic space. This has large window to west gable. Extended in late C17 by one bay at west end. Stair tower of original build, interrupting top plate with early C16 and late C15 door. Moulded door jamb with 'vase' base reused at head of largely original newel stair with octagonal newel post. Some original internal doors. Shallow arched door head with its jambs of original front door, still in-situ. Interior has fitted C18 corner cupboard with dentilled cornice and guilloche freize, mid C18 fitted dresser with raised and fielded panels and similar though possibly earlier cupboard fixed to upper landing wall.

Listing NGR: TL6157108114