| Description | Greystones, Warley. Mid 17th century farmhouse. Reuses earlier timber framing.
'Foot Greystones Farmhouse and Cottage II Farmhouse now 2 dwellings. Mid C17. Rubble brought to course, rendered to front and part of rear; stone slate roof. Through passage plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays with partial outshut and rear wing.
Front: left bay breaks forward. Quoins. Ground floor (left to right): blocked 3 light chamfered mullion window; glazed door in plain stone surround; 8 light double chamfered mullion window with king mullion; 5 light double chamfered mullion window to right of plain stone surround doorway. Over the 2 right hand windows a continuous hood mould with heart stop to left. 1st floor (left to right): 2 light flat faced mullion window; 3 light chamfered mullion window, mullions removed; 4 now 2 light chamfered mullion window; 4 light flat faced mullion window. External stack with quoins and offsets to right (top renewed); ridge stacks to right of door and to left.
Rear: outshut on left is under catslide roof and has quoins, a 2 light and a 3 light chamfered mullion window, all mullions removed, dripstone to latter. Central bay, projecting as gabled wing, has quoins, gable stack and in right return, a 5 light double chamfered mullion window with hollow moulded dripstone and a 4 light, now 2 light,window above. To right of wing a board door in plain stone surround with chamfered light over. Right hand portion breaks forward and is quoined.
Interior: quoined doorway from through passage into house with wood lintel. Room in rear wing, divided from front of house by plank and muntin partition wall, has large chamfered, quoined fireplace with deep triangular lintel and bread oven on its right, and a stop chamfered spine beam. The main house, formerly 2 rooms, now 1, has, in (former) left room, a large chamfered fireplace with deep lintel and stop chamfers to beams and some joists and in (former) right room a chamfered, quoined, arched fireplace with deep lintel, a stop chamfered spine beam and joists. On the lst floor a plank and muntin rear partition wall runs the length of the house. Straight braces rise from wall posts to plates and tie beams. King post trusses with braces to ridge piece, right hand truss with 'V' struts'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 19/07/1988. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1134540. Web site accessed 09/01/2013).
Greystones was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Colum Giles in 1980 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). 1980). The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'This is a stone house, dating probably from the mid 17th century. It is of two storeys, faces south and has a main range with outshut and rear wing. The west wing projects to both north and south, but it is possible that this wing is a later enlargement of an original linear end bay.
The south front retains some of its original fenestration. Lighting the central and eastern rooms are windows with recessed splayed mullions; a hood mould with decorated label stops unites the two windows. The first floor windows have splayed mullions flush with the surface of the wall. At the rear the window style is mixed. |