Goldwick Farmhouse

ST 79 NW ALKINGTON -

5/30 Goldwick Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Mid C18, with small C19 addition to rear. Coursed rubble stone, Cotswold stone slate roof, 3 stone stacks with flat moulded cornices. L-plan with additional small wing on left rear corner. 2 storeys, 4 bays, 3 windows, 3 and 4-light leaded casements with straight voussoir arches to left and plain lintel to right. Bay 3 right of centre has small Regency balcony on 1st floor, glazed with some coloured etched glass in margins, with swept lead roof, over elaborate wrought iron trelliswork porch of same period. 6-panel door, top 4 glazed, lower 2 bolection moulded. Ground floor has one 3-light leaded casement to left, 3-light full length fixed window in bay 2 with etched blue and red glass in margins, 3-light C20 french doors to right of porch. 6 round tie bar ends at eaves level with 6-point star, repeated on rear facade, which has 6-panel door on a line with front door, top 4 panels fielded, 2 flush, with large cambered wooden hood on large brackets, and round-headed window with Gothick intersecting leading over. Rear wing of L, a former stable block with artificial stone slate roof has round-arched passageway linking it to house, central round arched door and 2 flanking 3-light leaded casements formerly 2 doors, and 2 similar windows centred over. C19 2-storey addition has twin narrow gables with small Venetian-style window in each on 1st floor and even smaller ones on each side set awkwardly into the stonework beneath small pedimented piece of parapet with ball finial. Interior has fine timber dog-leg stair with turned balusters, and large fireplace with original timber bressumer in front room to left of porch with large lateral stack.

Listing NGR: ST7154797728