Listed Building record MDR25068 - The Common Farm Farmhouse and Garden Wall, Ashby Road, Melbourne

The Common Farm farmhouse and garden wall, Ashby Road, Melbourne, built in 1817. From the National Heritage List for England: 'SK 32 SE PARISH OF MELBOURNE ASHBY ROAD 5/42 (East Side) Common Farmhouse and Attached Garden Walls II Farmhouse and attached garden walls. 1817. Red brick with painted stone dressings and plain tile roof with brick gable stacks, plus sawtooth eaves band. Double range plan, three storeys and three bays. Central rustic wooden porch with gabled roof over original doorcase, with a panelled door and divided overlight. To either side there are tall 3-light windows with horizontal sliding sashes to bottom and fixed panes above. Similar windows above to either side and a similar 2-light window to centre. Above smaller 3-light casements to either side of central 2-light casement window, all below painted rusticated wedge lintels with double keystones. Interior has a stick baluster staircase and a back staircase between walls, also panelled doors and panelled cupboards to either side of western fireplace. Attached at either side to front of house there are low brick walls with flat stone copings, finishing in rusticated stone piers with pyramidal copings. Between the piers there are the original early C19 railings with a central gate. There are documents recording that the house was built in 1817 by Joseph Hazard. Listing NGR: SK3882323997.' (1)