| Description | Raw End (Farm), Warley. Stone house with early 18th century features.
'Dated 'I 1627 H'. Large blocks of coursed, dressed stone; stone slate roof. Through passage plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays, with partial rear outshut. South (garden) front: plinth. Double chamfered mullion windows, on ground floor (from left to right) of 5 lights, 6 lights, 2 lights, Tudor arched, chamfered, quoined doorway with datestone over, 2 lights, 3 lights, 2 lights, all under continuous dripmould rising over datestone. On 1st floor, windows of 5 lights, 5 lights, single arched light with sunk spandrels and archivolt dated 1839, 6 lights with king mullion. Coping with bases of finials. Shouldered and corniced end and ridge stacks, that to left end rebuilt.
Rear: blocked doorway on left, now with window. Chamfered, quoined, Tudor arched doorway to through passage with small chamfered light above. 4 light chamfered window with 6 , now 3 light window above. Outshut on right extended to left c1985 with Tudor arched doorway.
Left return: arched light with sunk spandrels to 1st floor, right. Right return: 3 light chamfered mullion window to 1st floor, right. Interior: central room (housebody) has large scantling stop chamfered spine beams and joists, all with grooved moulding; fireplace inserted in inglenook has stone surround and deep chamfered lintel with rounded corners to soffit. Left hand room has chamfered spine beam, groove moulded joists, and stone fireplace, the lintel with central triangular chamfer. Right hand room has replica fireplace and beams. Barrel vaulted cellar. Some stone stairs survive under modern staircase. Left hand room on lst floor has tie beam with continuous mortice in soffit indicating position of former partition wall. One king post truss visible in roof at right end, with 'V' struts to heavy scantling, trenched, chamfered purlins; diamond set ridge piece'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 15/11/1966. Date amended 19/07/1988. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1185606. Web site accessed23/01/2013).
The house and barn at Raw End were the subject of an archaeological assessment by Colum Giles in 1980 as part of the WYAS/RCHME Rural Houses Survey. The photographic image produced by the assessment is held by WYAAS. For information regarding the barn see PRN 13183. Giles briefly describes Raw End Farm as a stone house which is modern but with signs of an earlier one and a half storey house (Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1980). |