Ingham House With Attached Barn

SD 83 SE BRIERCLIFFE WITH HALIFAX ROAD (off) EXTWISTLE 3/8 Ingham House with attached barn. 7.3.1978 - II

Farmhouse, now house. C18, with attached barn probably C16, altered, now warehouse. Coursed sandstone, stone slate roofs on 2 levels. House of 2 bays and 2 storeys with central ridge chimney, 2 square windows on each floor (all with altered glazing) and lean-to porch at right hand end in angle with projecting barn. Rear has full-height lean-to in equivalent position, but is otherwise of less interest. Barn is of 3 bays, aisled on both sides, with recessed wagon entrance in centre of front; exterior is of less interest than interior, which contains a complete post-and-truss timber frame of high quality; 3 frames (3rd frame c.30cm from stone gable wall); stone stylobates c.l metre high; with braces to tie-beams and to aisle plates; intermediate posts supporting scarf-joints (?) in aisle plates of 3rd bay, and arch braces from these posts; king-post roof trusses with angle struts; 2 pairs of large trenched overlapped purlins to the nave and 2 pairs to each aisle; carpenter's marks, 1st bay now partitioned off for inclusion in dwelling. Item is important example of surviving aisled barns peculiar to this District of the County.

Listing NGR: SD8834634809