Bury Farm Cottage

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SD 52 SE 5/49

BRINDLE SANDY LANE Bury Farm Cottage

(Formerly listed as Bury Farmhouse)

17.4.67

II Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1699 over door; altered. Coursed sandstone rubble, slate roof. Three-bay baffle-entry plan plus a former farm building at left end remodelled as extension to house. Two storeys; doorway in line with rebuilt chimney at junction of 1st and 2nd bays has moulded surround, large rectangular lintel undercut to make a depressed pointed arch, a moulded cornice and rising from this a datestone with hollowed surround to a shouldered panel lettered in relief WIEIT 1699; to right, recessed hollow-chamfered mullioned windows of 4 and 3 lights with hoodmoulds, and at 1st floor hollow chamfered flush mullion windows of 3 and 3 lights. To left all openings have been rebuilt or inserted with materials from the former Clayton Hall (Clayton-le-Woods CP), including ovolo-and-fillet mullions: 2 lights at ground floor and 3 above, and in the remodelled part 4 lights below and 3 above. Left gable has re-located window, formerly in gable of house, of 3 stepped round-headed lights with hollow spandrels and stepped hoodmould. Rear has modern flush mullion windows.

Interior: inglenook fireplace with stop-chamfered bressummer, C18 inserted fireplace with stone jambs and corbelled lintel; two 1/4-round moulded beams; exposed timber-framed partition wall.

Listing NGR: SD5865623376