| Description | Gregory Farm. Upper Whitley. Late 18th century stone built double pile house.
'Farmhouse. Late C18. Hammer dressed stone. Quoins. Stone slate roof with gable copings on cut kneelers. Stone gable stacks. Two storeys. Central doorway with one 3 light window to left and right, both floors. Recent external shutters added to each window. 1st floor doorway to right gable reached by stone stair with recent rail. Thermal window in gable apex'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 16/05/1984. Date amended 16/05/1985. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1313316. Web site accessed 11/01/2013).
Gregory Farm was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Colum Giles in 1979 as part of the WYAS/RCHME Rural Houses Survey. The photographic images and sketch plan produced by the assessment are held by WYAAS (Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1979). The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'The house is built in coursed rubble masonry, quoined at the angles. The south front has a symmetrical elevation with central entry and flanking windows. The windows have mullions, square in section externally but chamfered internally. A stack rises from each gable.
The door opens into the main room, the housebody. This is heated by a fireplace on the east wall. To the west lies the parlour, again with a gable fireplace. A stone wall divides the front rooms from the rear; the door openings are finished in brick. The rear of the house has a kitchen to the east, with a back door; the stack heating the kitchen has been removed. To the west lies another small room, again heated originally. Centrally sited at the rear is the stair, lit by a tall transomed stair window. The side walls of the stair well are of brick, in random bond (tending towards English).
The first floor of the house has a number of bedrooms. One of the chambers, however was probably used for storage, for there is an original door in the east gable wall. The door is reached now by later stone steps, but originally access may have been by a ladder. It is not clear whether one of both of the chambers over the housebody and kitchen were served by this door.
The attic is lofty and is lit by a lunette window in the eastern gable. The roof structure is in softwood, with principal rafters, queen struts, collars and king post'.
(Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1979. 'Upper Whitley. Gregory Farm'). |