ORCHARD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FORMER COWHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286578
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: ORCHARD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FORMER COWHOUSE
Statutory Address:: ORCHARD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FORMER COWHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286578
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: ORCHARD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FORMER COWHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ORCHARD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FORMER COWHOUSE

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Statutory Address:: ORCHARD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FORMER COWHOUSE

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County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Waterhouses
National Grid Reference:: SK 08167 49456

Details

SK 04 NE WATERHOUSES C.P. CAULDON

4/177 Orchard Farmhouse and 3/1/67 attached former cowhouse (formerly listed as Orchard Farm House, - II Former farmhouse and cowhouse, now activity centre. C17 with C18 extensions and mid-C19 alterations and addition. C17 house of coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, front partly rebuilt in red brick, C18 extensions of red brick and of coursed rubble, both with ashlar quoins and dressings; plain tile roofs; brick ridge stacks and integral end stack. C17 house aligned east-west facing south with early C18 western extension on the same alignment and later C18 extension wing aligned north-south added to the centre of the original south front; cowhouse aligned east-west added to west end of the farmhouse in the mid- Cl9. South front: house to right, cowhouse to left. House: C17 house to the right with central gabled extension wing, and early C18 extension to the left, with a straight joint between the two. C17 house: 2 storeys; 3 bays, the front of the left hand bay has been rebuilt in red brick and has 16-pane glazing bar sashes with wedge lintels, the right hand bay has a ground floor 3-light chamfer mullioned window with rebated frame and continuous hood mould carried around the right hand gable, casement to first floor. Left hand return of extension wing: blocked door to left containing a casement, inserted C20 door to the right; 2-light flat face mullioned window to first floor left. Early C18 extension: 2 storeys with Scotia moulded plinth, moulded storey band, cyma reversa moulded eaves band and rusticated quoins of unequal length; 3 bays, 2-light flat face mullioned windows with moulded surrounds containing casement to first floor, double glazing bar sash window to ground floor with wedge lintel, C20 six-panelled door to the right with moulded architrave and cornice hood. Cowhouse: one storey; 3 bays, casements to left, right and right of centre, the 2 latter in blocked doorways, door to left of centre. North front: house to left, cowhouse to right. House: C17 house to left, early C18 extension to right. C17 house casement to ground floor left of centre in chamfered surround. Early C18 extension: 2-light chamfer mullioned stair window one above the other, the upper one blocked. East gable: chamfer mullioned windows with rebated surrounds, ground floor window has 3 lights and a continuous hood mould carried round the south front, blocked 3-light window to first floor with inserted casement and straight hood mould; blocked 2-light attic window. Interior: dog-leg staircase with turned balusters to early C18 extension.

Listing NGR: SK0816749456

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.