Storehouse, 10 Yards Left Of Birdshill Farm House

This is a large house, built in stages between 1890 and 1910, located to the left of Birdshill Farm House. It is constructed of coursed Bargate sandstone and brick up to a certain height, with ashlar dressings, and has half-timbering above with whitewashed render infill. The roofs are tiled, with a lower pitch to the right end. The house has a complicated plan and features tall stacks at the left end, to the front and rear, and centrally to the front and rear right. It is mainly two storeys high with attics in the large gabled end bay to the left.

The front of the house has a gabled cross wing on the left end, featuring a single stone-dressed mullioned and transomed window on the first floor and a round bay window with eight lights on the ground floor. A battlemented square bay is centrally placed, with chamfered corners and a central first-floor projecting niche. A string course runs above the ground floor windows, with smaller windows set within the chamfered angles. An oriel window sits to the right of the square bay on the first floor, beneath a conical roof with a spike finial. The lower extensions continue to the right in a similar style. Double-gabled bays are positioned to the left of the centre, each with a single first-floor window, leaded-light, above two columned stone colonnades across the ground floor. There are two windows behind the colonnade on the ground floor, along with a part-glazed door to the left. The main entrance door is at the base of the square bay, accessed by a flight of steps, with a hood moulding and arched surround.

Inside, a notable feature is a fine two-storey hall designed in a Jacobean style. It’s oak-panelled with five arcaded bays on each side, featuring flattened arches and lozenge keystones. The first floor has flat pierced balusters and strapwork decoration. A particularly grand two-storey hood fireplace, in French/Baronial style, has strapwork overmantle and a central raised panel, with block-decorated pilasters over rounded, grouped columns below. The hall's ceiling is panelled and pendant. The hall itself measures 50 feet by 30 feet, rising to a height of 22 feet. A Music Room contains weak gesso decorations in the style of Burne-Jones, with classical references to Milton, illustrating Paradise Lost and other works. This room also has a stone fireplace with Doric columns and a triglyph entablature, and a panelled ceiling.