EAW001233 ENGLAND (1946). Ryknild Street (Roman Road), Swan's Hill and the surrounding countryside, Weatheroak Hill, 1946

Clewshaw Lane

Redhill Road

Peacock Inn

Lea End Lane

Brockhill Dingle

Brockhill Lane

Swanshill Wood

Mount Pleasant Farm

Newhouse Farm

This apparent semi detached house is now the Coach and Horses pub, considerably extended in several directions. The current owners describe a building now used as a brewery - Weatheroak Hill Brewery- as former stables.

Weatheroak Farmhouse post code B48 7EH Grade 2 listed building English Heritage Building ID: 156073 English Heritage listing: Farmhouse. Late C16, early C17 and late C17 incorporating a fragment of an open hall house. Timber-frame with rendered infill and probably rendered sandstone. Plan is complex, single bay to north end late C16, next bay early C17, south cross-wing and bay in line with rest late C17, stack in latter bay has three diamond shafts. East front: two storeys with gabled cross-wing to left (probably rendered sandstone), four windows: mostly 3-light C20 casements; ground floor: canted bay window with lean-to roof, then three windows of two, five and three lights; roughly central a C20 gabled porch with 3-light casement to front, replacing a two-storey timber-framed porch

Weatheroak Hill (road name)

The Roman Road followed this hedge, and there remains a public footway here but the modern road follows the other two sides of this triangular field, to reduce the steep gradient for motor vehicles.

Icknield Street - Roman Road. (also referred to as Ryknild Street)

Watery Lane

Radford Road