Lymore Farmhouse

Large ceiling beams, one with three-inch chamfer. Not all of the interior inspected at time of re-survey.

Farmhouse, divided into two, painted brick with slate roofs and brick chimneys, roughly square-plan with a narrow gabled wing projecting to left of W front. A big gabled range with two ridge stacks runs E-W at S, with W wall brickwork continuous with a range running N with N end brick stack, from which the NW wing projects. Finally a rear NE range is gabled to E, the gable paired with E gable of S range. Two storeys, with flat-headed small-paned windows, casements above, longer windows below. Narrow projecting gable to left has C19 or C20 bargeboards, a first floor casement pair and ground floor triple casement with top lights and a blocked cellar opening. Garden wall ramped up to left with cambered-headed doorway. Right return is windowless. Range at right angles has door in angle to left in wooden porch with two columns, cornice, and enclosed right side. Half-glazed door with four-pane overlight. Then main gable has matching bargeboards, two casement pairs above two sash windows with brick voussoirs, the one to left with small panes to imitate a cross-window, the one to right 4-pane, without the small panes. Lean-to on S wall with W end wall matching wall against opposite N end, with ramped coping, one similar 4-pane sash to W. Lean-to is against left half of S wall with a later C19 porch against E end. Stuccoed wall to right, with two first floor long casement pairs, over ground floor centre right big three-light C19 mullion-and-transom window and brick lean-to bay to right with modern large 4-light window. Rear elevation with two conjoined white-washed gables, left one with lean-to, the right one with two casement pairs above and one to ground floor left, all with gauged brick heads. N elevation has a wide slate-hung gable, the slate-hanging possibly concealing timber-framed construction further suggested by the timber post between the two casement pairs to right of brick chimney breast, one also to left. Ground floor has lean-to of brick with a brick chimney rising from roof to right (against side of NW projecting wing). N elevation of range to left of gable is also slate hung but has exposed timber-framing of slender scantling with brick infilling exposed in ground floor.