Sheephouse Farmhouse And Attached Cottages And Stone Barn

BOLTON

SD61SE SMITHILLS DEAN ROAD 797-1/1/216 (West side (off)) 26/04/74 Sheephouse Farmhouse and attached cottages and stone barn (Formerly Listed as: SMITHHILLS DEAN ROAD Sheep House Farmhouse. Stone Barn attached to Sheep House Farmhouse.)

GV II

Farmhouse with attached cottages and barn. The house probably originally late C17 or early C18, extended to rear early C19. Cottages probably late C18, and barn dated 1862, extended by the addition of shippons in 1901. Coursed and squared stone with stone flagged and slate roofs. EXTERIOR AND PLAN: earliest building, the main part of the house, faces south: 2 storeys, 2-window range with doorway to right, and two 3-light mullioned windows on each floor. Axial stack. Rear wing of farmhouse probably added early C19. Cottages adjoin the farmhouse to the rear (and are wrapped by the rear extensions of the farmhouse). Each a single unit, double pile plan, with doorway to left, and single window on each floor, all with plain stone lintels. Central stack. Barn is rock-faced rubble, a double ridged building, with wide segmentally arched opposed entrances to threshing floor, and datestone above the northern doorway. INTERNAL: structure consists of paired kingpost trusses supported by central cast-iron columns. The farm formed part of the Ainsworth's Smithills hall estate.

Listing NGR: SD6909512048