Lower Whittle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1987. A C17 Farmhouse.
Lower Whittle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-floor-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- C17
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SD 80 NW SD 80 NE 1/6 & 2/6
MIDDLETON DOCTOR FOLD LANE (south side)
Lower Whittle Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C17 timber-framed structure with substantial rebuilding of parts in C18. Rendered masonry walls which incorporate much of the timber-framed structure, the extent of which is unknown. Slate roof. 4 bays and 2 storeys with gabled crosswing to right and C19 lean-to addition to right return. Bay 1 is a C19 addition to the original 3-bay structure which has a projecting stone plinth and a door with fanlight in bay 3. None of the window openings are original, all containing C20 casement windows. 3 ridge chimney stacks. The framing of both of the original end walls and one crosswall are all visible internally. Brick nogging and wattle and daub are found in the panels which are roughly square. The principal posts are diagonally braced and support diagonally braced tie-beam roof trusses all of which are original to the structure. C19 staircase.
Listing NGR: SD8499408252
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