Bents Farmhouse And Adjoining Barn

SD 91 NW LITTLEBOROUGH STUBLEY

1/59 Bents Farmhouse and adjoining - barn

• II LaithE-house. Early C19 but probably earlier origin. Hammer-dressed watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof. Double-depth plan with 2 bays, 2 storeys and barn attached to right. Central door and porch have obtuse-angled lintels and heavily chamfered surrounds. The porch has a coped gable and a date of 1727 cut into a jamb stone. 5-light chamfered mullion and transom window to left, 4-light mullion window to right and two 3- light first floor windows. All have hoodmoulds. Central blind arched light at first floor level. Quoins, coped gables with kneelers and gable and ridge chimney stacks. The rear has similar 3 and 4-light windows and doors (some blocked) with square-cut surrounds. The barn, partly obscured by a timber lean-to addition, has opposed segmental-arched cart entries with small arched lintel lights above, dressed pitching holes to either side and slit ventilators. Rendered right gable. Queen-post roof trusses. A parallel single-storey range adjoins at the rear and is detailed similarly.

Listing NGR: SD9270316218