Description

SP 27 NW
732/11/10025

SOLIHULL
FROGMORE LANE
(East, off) Fen End
Wood Farmhouse including outbuilding adjoining to the south

II

Farmhouse, coach house and stables. Circa early C18, possibly with earlier core. Flemish garden wall bond red brick. Plain tile roof with corbelled brick eaves and gable ends. Brick axial and gable end stacks. PLAN: L-shaped on plan; 2 rooms in front range with central axial stack serving right [N] room, backing onto entrance passage. Long wing behind left [N] room containing 3 rooms, 2 unheated rooms and a kitchen heated from a gable end stack. Later outhut on the inner [N] side of rear wing. Stable and coach house range attached to right [S] end of main range with earlier timber framing in rear wall and extended in the C19. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic main range. Asymmetrical 2-window west front. 3-light casements with glazing bars and cambered brick arches. Doorway to right of centre, its doorcase with channelled pilasters, panelled reveals, rectangular overlight, small canopy and a panelled and glazed door. Platband at first floor level. Rear east: 2-light casements to left and long gable-ended wing on right with casements with cambered arches on outer [N] side, gabled brick porch on north end and original 3-light window and lean-to outshut on inner south side. Stable/coach house range on south end with boarded coach house and stable doors and dormer on front; timber-framing in rear wall, partly concealed by outshut. INTERIOR: left-hand room has chamfered axial beam and C20 chimneypiece. Unheated right-hand room has chamfered cross-beam and chamfered joists. Rear wing back room has chamfered axial beam and large fireplace with cambered chamfered bressumer.

Listing NGR: SP2291175085

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558572

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