Church Farmhouse

SEMLEY SEMLEY VILLAGE ST 82 NE (north side)

3/183 Church Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. C16 with C17 wing, altered late C19. Rubble stone and dressed limestone, tiled roof, brick stacks. Through passage to rear of stack. Single-storey and attic, 2-window earlier range. Central gabled porch wth 4-panelled door in elliptically-headed doorway, single chamfered fire window to left and 4-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement either side of porch. Two full gabled dormers have 3-light mullioned casements. Left return has blocked pointed doorway and fragments of string course over. C17 cross range to right has 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement to ground and first floor and string course on left return, gable end has C19 three-storey square bay with 4-light mullioned casements, right return of wing has central 3-panelled door with 3-light mullioned casement with hoodmould either side and single light casement with 3-light mullioned casement left and right to first floor, gabled dormer to roof. Rear has 6-panelled door and 3-light muliioned casement with 2-light attic casement to main range, wing, has 2-light mullioned casements. Interior largely inaccessible, but through passage has fine strap- work panelling on left side, deeply chamfered beams, open fireplaces with chamfered lintels on stone jambs. Possibly a Medieval house remodelled and extended in the C17.

Listing NGR: ST8924126982