Barkby Grange Farmhouse, Beeby Road, Barkby (Grade II*)

Farmhouse, 1855. Polychrome brickwork with stone dressings, and Welsh slate roof. Flamboyant picturesque gothic style, 2 storeyed, square in plan with central light well, each facade different. Entrance front of 2 bays, with central doorway beneath gabled full height porch, corbelled out at 1st floor level. The doorway is a 4 centred arch in chamfered and carved architrave. Single 2-light store mullioned window with hoodmould above and datestone in the apex. Left hand bay has 3 mullioned lights with blue and yellow brick relieving arch over, and polychrome decoration in the tympanum it forms. 2 mullioned lancets in the right hand bay, 2 light windows above, and a gable over the left hand bay with patterning in the apex. West elevation has 2 coped gables with a tiny gablet between them, each containing an expressed chimney stack. 2 light windows in centre, single lights in left hand gable. East elevation is of 3 bays with a tall coped gable to left, and a lower one to the right. In the left hand gable a 3 light stone mullioned window to ground floor, 2 lights above, with polychrome patterning in gable apex. Central bay also has a mullioned window to each floor, as does right hand gable. Yellow brick quoins on angles, blue and yellow brick bands. Stone coped gables, ornate tall brick stacks