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farm house

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Detached four-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1880, with flat-roofed addition to side (north-west). Lean-to addition to rear (north-east). Pitched replacement artificial slate roof with artificial slate lean-to roof to rear addition, having rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Bitumen-clad flat roof to side (north-west) addition. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth and quoins to front (south-west) and side (south-east) elevations. Rendered walls with plinth to rear and side (north-west) elevations of house and side (south-east) elevation of lean-to addition. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills throughout, having rendered surrounds to front elevation openings. One-over-two and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front and rear elevations with occasional timber and uPVC casement replacements. Recessed square-headed door opening with rendered stepped approach to front elevation, having raised render surround and glazed timber door flanked by sidelights. Square-headed door opening to side (south-east) elevation of rear addition, having uPVC door. Blocked square-headed door opening to side (north-west) elevation of flat-roofed addition, now accommodating vent pipe. Later agricultural outbuildings to north and north-west. Rendered enclosing walls with render coping, rendered square-profile gate piers and wrought-iron gate to south-east.
Though some historic fabric has been lost, this building retains much of its traditional character intact. Its form, fenestration pattern, and siting with gable to road, its typical of the vernacular tradition which was once found through the country but is now sadly increasingly rare.

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