Back Lane Farmhouse

BURNLEY

SD83SW ROSSENDALE ROAD 906-1/3/119 (South side) 29/09/77 No.189 Back Lane Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse with attached barn and shippon, now house and garage or store. Barn and shippon probably C18, house early to mid C19; both altered. Barn and shippon of random rubble with quoins, corrugated sheet roof; house of coursed squared sandstone (rear rendered) with stone slate roof. PLAN: linear plan parallel to road: 3-bay barn with lean-to shippon to the right and single-depth double-fronted house to the left, and small wing to left of this. EXTERIOR: the house: 2 storeys and 1:3 windows, with a moulded gutter cornice, has a doorway with plain surround finished with a primitive segmental pediment, a narrow window above the doorway, 2-light windows on each floor to the left and single-light windows to the right, all vertical rectangular with raised sills and plain surrounds, and all furnished with C20 small-paned top-hung casements; and a short set-back side wing in similar style. Corniced chimneys at left gable and on ridge. The barn to the right has a segmental-arched wagon doorway in the centre and a blocked doorway to the right; and the attached shippon has a window and a doorway to the front. INTERIOR not inspected. Forms group with Cherryfold on opposite side of road (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8223331493