Dodbrook Farmhouse

HOLNE - SX 66 NE

3/29 Dodbrook Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse. Circa C17 extended in C18, remodelled in early C19 and extended in late C19. Slate tablet on front inscribed "LLIAS Stranger 1806". Cement washed stone ruble. Asbestos slate roof with gabled ends. Rendered stone axial stack with set-offs. 3-room and through passage plan, the demolished lower end might have been a shippon, the passage survives and the axial hall stack backs onto passage. Circa C18 parlour wing parallel at rear of higher end. 2 storeys. 3-window range. C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. Ground floor centre larger 4-light hall window in segmental-headed opening. To left through passage doorway with glazed door and wide C19 gabled porch. Interior: hall has open fireplace with reused timber lintel. Thin chamfered hall ceiling beam with ogee steps. This beam continues into inner room with similar steps. Inner room partition plastered. Much of the C18 joinery intact, including fielded panel doors, dog-leg staircase in rear wing with splat balusters and tapered newel with head moulded corners. There was once an adjoining house at the north-west end.

Listing NGR: SX6976968858