NHER 47127 (Building record) - Dial Farm

Farmhouse. Dated 1730. Brick with corrugated tile roof. 2 storeys in 5 bays. Brick plinth. Giant pilasters close façade. Central panelled door beneath flat hood carried on scrolled brackets. Window frames C18 under gauged skewback arches and with surrounds of lighter coloured red brick. Sashes are late 20th century replacements. First floor string course rises over door hood. Heavily moulded brick eaves cornice with dentils. Panelled parapet with wall sundial which carries date 1730. Gabled roof with internal end stacks. Open well cut string staircase with floral scrolls to tread ends. 3 turned balusters on vase and bobbin mouldings to each tread. Ramped handrail wreathed to bottom newel. Dado of stair well panelled. All rooms retain moulded cornices.
Information from (S1).
See (S2) for details on the history of the house.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 14 September 2006.

Sundial. Date barely visible and partly obscured by brightly painted dial. The letter 'J' to the top centre and 'M' below and to the right in middle register and along the bottom the date: MDCCXXX. The middle left hand initial is not visible from the ground unless the black painted 'J', which forms part of the dial design, is a reminder. The paint over the letters and date is slightly crazed and suggests that painted letters survive beneath the painted surface of the dial. The dial was clearly an after thought and therefore the eponymous house originally had another name. See photographs. See (S3)
S. Heywood (HES), 4 April 2011.