Lewer Farmhouse

HATHERLEIGH SS 50 NW Lewer Farmhouse 3/17 - - II Farmhouse. C17, possibly with earlier origins, with C18 or C19 additions. Rendered cob and rubble walls. Gabled mainly thatched roof, corrugated iron roof to attached cottage at right. Brick stack at left and right gable ends. Plan: originally probably 2-room-and-through-passage plan, hall to right with projecting window bay at front and rear lateral stack. Staircase inserted into passage in early C20. At right-hand end of hall a 2-room plan cottage was added in the C18 or early C19 which is now unoccupied. C19 outbuilding at left-hand end of house which may have been a stable. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front to main house of which the right- hand end is a projecting gabled bay. C20 2-light casements. C20 4-panel door to right of centre. Cottage at right-hand end is recessed and has a 3-window front of similar casements with a central gabled late C19 or C20 porch with 4 panel door behind. Outbuilding at left-hand end of house projects and has a door towards its left-hand end and 4 windows. Interior: no early features visible on ground floor but may merely be concealed . 1st floor and roof-space inaccessible at time of survey but early roof timbers may survive.

Listing NGR: SS5284705578