Rennington Moor Farmhouse And Attached Farmbuilding

NU 11 NE and NU 21 NW RENNINGTON RENNINGTON MOOR 4/201 and 5/201 Rennington Moor farmhouse and attached farmbuildings GV II

House and attached farm buildings. Earlier C18, altered in C19. Rubble with roughly-shaped quoins and dressings; tooled-and-margined dressings to C19 parts. Pantile roof except for Welsh slates on porch and centre part of range; stacks rebuilt in brick.

South elevation: House, to right, 2 low storeys 4 windows. Central gabled C19 porch, with vertical-panelled door in chamfered surround, flanked by 4- pane sash windows. 1st floor windows, set close beneath eaves, are 2-pane casements except for 8-pane Yorkshire sash at left end. Raised coping to gables; end stacks, that to left rebuilt on broader old base. Right return shows external stone stair to boarded door. Farmbuildings single storey. 2- bay right section shows boarded door at left end and 4-pane sash windows; coped left end gable. Left end section, set slightly back, is hemmel with pair of segmental arches and raised reverse-stepped coping to end gable. Rear elevation: Attached barn at centre has boarded door in alternating- block surround on inner return.

Rare surviving example of a linear farmstead. The external stair would suggest that at least part of the upper floor of the house was formerly used as a granary.

Listing NGR: NU2000717302