Coxen Green Farmhouse

SK 05 NE GRINDON C.P. POTHOOKS LANE (West side)

4/89 Coxen Green Farmhouse - G.V. II Farmhouse. Mid C17. Coursed and squared limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; clay tile roofs with coped verges; integral coursed rubble end stacks. L-shaped plan; main range with rear wing; gable end entrance to hall; separate access from hall to parlour which contains the central staircase, and to a narrow pantry; rear wing contains kitchen and dairy. 2 storeys; 2 windows; mullioned; that to ground floor right is of 3 lights, the others are of 2 lights; ground floor window to left retains a C17 rebated surround and chamfered mullion; the rest of the windows have plain mullions and are probably C18; casements to rear wing; square headed doorway to North gable end with heavily weathered ovolo moulded surround and a now indecipherable date carved on the lintel. Interior: massive mantle beam to now dis-used inglenook or fire bay in hall; straight staircase in parlour leading to first floor which retains 2 early C19 fireplaces with foliage decorations; simple roof of purlins supported by external and partition walls.

Listing NGR: SK0745256139