Wrenshall Farmhouse

TL 97 SE 3/56 STANTON

UPTHORPE ROAD Wrenshall Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed, with rendered front, and tile-hanging to sides and rear. Roof of reed thatch. An internal chimney-stack with 4 attached hexagonal shafts, formerly with a plaster date of 1603. 2 small-paned sash windows to each storey. Lobby entrance, with a mid C19 enclosed porch: shallow-pitched slate roof, fluted barge-boards, door with 6 flush panels. The frame is in 5 bays, with no structural chimney-bay, and the present partition walls do not relate to the trusses. It is not clear what the original layout was, and an earlier heating arrangement, ante-dating the brick stack, seems likely. Main beams and posts are visible, and framing in one upper room at the north end. The structure appears to be all of one date. Roof of rather light-weight construction: clasped side purlins, diminished principals, remains of windbraces. A small timber-framed wing at the rear, with end chimney-stack, encased in white brick in C19, raised, and slated, has remains of steep-pitched earlier roof by stack.

Listing NGR: TL9840172068