Brook Farm, Farmhouse and Barns, Main Street, Sileby (Locally Listed)

Geo: 52.7206, -1.1070
Date ListedThu 17th June, 2004
CategoryLocally Listed Building
AddressBrook Farm ~ Farmhouse & Barns Main Street Sileby LE12 7RR
GradeLocally Listed
Grid ReferenceSK6041314035
Description

Cottage style Farmhouse. Perhaps Mid/Late C19. Red brick with stone label mouldings to window openings. Hipped slate roof. Squat ridge stack with corbelled head and stone pots. Inappropriate replacement mock leaded light casement windows.
Cluster of Barns C18. Vernacular styling. Red brick with pitched slate roofs. Small barn re-roofed in corrugated iron sheet. One barn with upstanding gables capped with stone copings surmounted by decorative finials at apex. Finial missing from gable fronting entrance. Entrance gable also features five expressed brick courses tiered above first floor gable opening and finishing under apex, each course diminishing in width.

The description above describes the salient features of the building as it was at the date of listing. It is given in order to aid identification; it is not intended to be either comprehensive or exclusive.