Fir Tree Farmhouse, Ball Green

Fir Tree Farmhouse and Cottage

photo: © Mr Brian Peach - March 1993

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Farm house and adjoining cottage. Early 17th Century.

Coursed and squared rubble with plain tiled roof. 2-storeyed hall range with coped gabled cross wing to west. Entrance against stack at eastern end, with roughly moulded stone lintel, and inserted windows to central section, stone mullioned windows survive in projecting gable of western bay, and in the rear of this wing, the original hood mould survives above an inserted door and window.

Added wing to rear faced in 19th Century brick, but with main beam and fireplace bressumer inside which suggest the refacing of an earlier structure. The cottage which adjoins to the east is possibly built around an original cross wing of the farm house: there is a blocked doorway in the present entrance porch, and traces of possible timbering visible in the walls of the present later 19th Century cottage. This is a single unit, but tall double pile plan.

 

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