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The Academy House - Grade II Listed Building
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from the post office corner |
Heritage England, official list entry
Location High Street, Farndon - SJ 41345 54574 Year listed 28 Nov 1984 Detail House, late C18 with earlier internal features. Local brown brick in Flemish bond with grey slate roof. Rusticated quoins terminate in swept-out copings to gables. Of 3 storeys and 3 windows, symmetrical, with slightly projecting central bay. Replaced door of 6 fielded panels; 16-pane sashes to lower storey; 12-pane sash flanked by 16-pane sashes to 2nd storey; 6-pane sash flanked by 8-pane sashes to 3rd storey; all sashes flush. The interior has some oak beams and, in the left bay, an altered inglenook; 1 door of 3 oak boards. Up to the late C19 the house was more elaborate in expression; eaves cornice, finials and a Roman Doric porch have been removed (engraving in owner's hands). The house used to contain a school (late 19thc).
Farndon: The History of a Cheshire Village, Frank A. Latham (Ed.)Page 105; (When the house was in use as a school) Academy House is now the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Griffiths [1981]. It is a typical plain eighteenth century building in Flemish Bond with stove heads and sills, rusticated quoins, gable copings and near flush sash windows with glazing bars. The 1891 census names just two schools — that at Holly Bank and another run by Miss Brown.
Frank A. Latham (Ed.), Farndon: The History of a Cheshire Village, (1981) |