| Description | Upper Longbottom, Warley. Late 17th century stone house.
'Farmhouse now two dwellings. Probably mid Cl7, much altered late C18, subdivided C19. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with crosswing on left and through passage.
East (garden) front: main range: between bays 1 and 2 a C20 glazed door with plain stone surround and in C20 gabled porch with reset lintel dated '1 1641 L'. Flanked by flat faced mullion windows with plain stone surrounds, of 4 lights on each floor to left and 5 lights to right. Bay 3 has a 4 light double chamfered mullion window flanked by single lights to ground floor and a 5 light single chamfered mullion window above, all lights round arched and with sunk spandrels. Moulded gutter brackets. Stack to left end and to ridge between bays 2 and 3.
Crosswing, breaking forward slightly: quoins to left. On right, door with deep lintel and tie stones, converted to window. To 1st floor, centre, a 2 light chamfered mullion window. Inturned kneelers and moulded coping to gable.
Rear: main range: on right, a C20 gabled porch flanked by 4 light flat faced mullion windows with a similar 5 light and 2 light window above. On left, a plain stone surround doorway with window to left on each floor. Later C19 addition projects on left. Plain gutter brackets.
Crosswing, projecting: a 2 light chamfered mullion window to ground floor left; a similar window to 1st floor, centre, with inserted 2 light window on its left.
Left return (crosswing): Cl9 doorways at either end. On ground floor, chamfered mullion windows with mason's marks of 3, 2 and 3 lights, the latter with an inserted C19 2 light window to its left. On 1st floor, 2 square lights.
Interior of crosswing: stone partition wall surmounted by wattle and daub wall in roof space. Two king post roof trusses with V struts, the tie beam of one chamfered and the other cambered'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 19/07/1988. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1134423. Web site accessed 29/01/2014).
Upper Longbottom was 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 (Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME. 1980). The fieldwork record sheet is transcribed below:
'This is a stone house, dating in part from the 17th century and in part from the 19th century. The house face south east (south for the purposes of these notes), is of two storeys and has a hall and crosswing plan.
It is the cross wing that is the earliest part of the complex. It is of two low storeys or one and a half storeys, the upper floor being accommodated in part in the roof space. The wing has no windows to the south on the ground floor and only a two light window on the first floor: the mullions here and elsewhere in the wing have cavetto mouldings and are flush with the surface of the wall. It is difficult to suggest a date for the wing, but perhaps an early mid 17th century date is appropriate. No entry into the wing appears to be original, although a blocked doorway on the south front is partially obscured and may indeed have provided entry originally.
The main block lies to the east of the wing and appears to be entirely of late 18th century to early 19th century date, apart from the re use of some earlier windows. A date stone has also been reused; it reads 'I L 1614'. It is thought that the initials refer to the Longbottom family. An indenture on the possession of the owner shows that by 1717 one Anthony Longbottom was described as of Longbottom, gentleman, and that Longbottom was in the possession of Timothy Bancroft, who paid a yearly rent of 10d to the lord of the Manor'.
(Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1980. 'Upper Longbottom, Warley'). |