Appley Farmhouse (Including Water Tower And Outbuilding) Benham Lodge Caprice Elsie Bungalow Forelands Hideaway Siesta The Bungalow

This group of buildings comprises a farmhouse, cottages, and outbuildings, originally part of the Appley Towers Estate (now demolished), and subsequently converted into separate dwellings. The buildings date to the mid-19th century, although the farmhouse may be older. The group is arranged around an entrance gate and includes a single-storey range running east-west, originally stables and now divided into “Hideaway,” “Elsie Bungalow,” and “The Bungalow”; a single-storey block to the north, comprising “Forelands” and “Siesta”; and two further single-storey units, “Benham Lodge” and “Caprice.” The farmhouse is set at a right angle to this arrangement, and a water tower with an attached outbuilding stands behind it. All buildings are constructed of stone rubble with yellow brick dressings to windows and ground level. They have gable-ended slate roofs, patterned ridge tiles, shaped gables with brick copings, and spiked ball or fircone finials, some of which were salvaged from Appley Towers. The chimneys are tall, constructed of yellow brick in a free Jacobean style, some set diagonally. The converted outbuildings have modern casement windows, set within segmental brick arches.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, and the second-floor windows are half dormers with shaped stone gables. The original two-light casement windows remain. The water tower, rising behind the farmhouse, is a prominent feature. It stands at a right angle to a single-storey, L-shaped stone rubble outbuilding, also with brick dressings and shaped gables. The tower has slit windows on each face at the first and second floors, framed by a thin yellow brick arcade. The tent-shaped slate roof is topped with a flat area surrounded by an ornate cast iron balustrade.