Listed Building record MDR10840 - Spring Farm Farmhouse and Barn, Brook Street, Hartshorne

Spring Farm farmhouse and barn, Brook Street, Hartshorne, of probably 17th century date. 'Spring Farm is a two-storeyed house, walled in brick rendered over with stucco. It is timber-framed, originally three rooms long and probably built in the early 17th century, with a wing running north from the middle room perhaps built about 1700. It is attached to a court of farm buildings on the north side, including a timber-framed barn, now walled in late 18th century brick and linked to the house by the coalhouse-passage-dairy block of a similar date. The house was walled in brick perhaps in the first half of the 19th century, and a scullery added at the north end of the wing with a cheese room over it at the same time. The garage may have been built as a dairy and converted. To the east the ground slopes down to a pond fed by the spring that gives the farm its name. The south-facing front of the house looks onto a lane off Brook Street which was probably a private drive to the farm.' (1) From the National Heritage List for England: 'PARISH OF HARTSHORNE SLATER'S ROW SK 32 SW 3/41 (North Side) Spring Farmhouse and Attached Barn II Farmhouse. Probably C17 and later. Rendered brick and timber framing. Plain tile roofs with external stack, gable and ridge stacks. Two storeys. South elevation of three bays. Off- centre doorway with segment head and C20 door. To the right a 3-light C20 casement. To the left a 3-light and a 2-light casement, and beyond, a C19 2-light casement. Three 3-light C20 casements above. Brick barn attached to left, has a segment headed doorway with plank door and a doorway with flat arch and plank door. Within the barn the gable end of the house has exposed box framing of substantial timbers, with upward braces. The interior has a massive fireplace with bressumer and later infill. Winder staircase against the stack. Stoop chamfered beams and evidence of stud partitions. Listing NGR: SK3223221564.' (2)