Wood Farmhouse And Adjoining Barns

SADDLEWORTH CASTLESHAW SD 90 NE 3/34 Wood Farmhouse and adjoining - barns G.V. II Farmhouse and barns. Mid C18 but largely rebuilt including an early C19 facade and C19 barns (one of 1896). Ashlar and hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. Double-depth central-entrance plan with 2 storeys and barns to either side. Symmetrical facade with projecting plinth, raised quoins, square eaves gutter brackets and gable chimney stacks. Central door with fanlight, keystone, archivolt and enriched panel above a moulded hood. 4 ground floor and 5 first floor windows with square-cut surrounds and continuous sill bands and C20 casements. The window above the door has an enriched lintel and cornice. Semi- circular-headed gable window. 2 and 3-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion windows to rear (which has been largely rebuilt in C20) and gables, some of which are blocked. Segmental and elliptical-arched cart entries to barns on each side. Datestone of 1773 is reused from elsewhere. Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society, Vol.4, No.3, 1974.

Listing NGR: SD9923709856