Causeway House Farmhouse

HEAPEY COPPICE LANE SD 61 NW 10/115 Causeway House Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse, probably later C17, altered in C18. Coursed thin sandstone rubble without quoins (possibly recladding), slate roof with 2 brick chimneys. Three-bay baffle-entry plan. Two storeys; two plain doorways at the junction of the 1st and 2nd bays (in line with the ridge chimney), 3 horizontal rectangular windows on each floor, and a small square window above the right hand door, all with altered glazing. Lean-to at right end, shed at left end. Rear wall, which faces into rising slope, has 4 windows at ground floor, 3 of these with slab hoodmoulds, and that to the housepart in the middle bay blocked; and 3 windows at 1st floor. Interior: appears earlier than outer shell of building, with kitchen in 1st bay, housepart in 2nd bay, and 2 service rooms in 3rd bay (but axial partition removed); housepart has inglenook with large stop chamfered bressummer, this and kitchen each have one ovolo-moulded lateral beam; full-height timber-framed partition between 2nd and 3rd bays; low tie-beams at 1st floor, that in the middle bay apparently inserted or raised; smoke hood (now enclosed by light panelling) continued in roof space in stone; timber-framed partition in roof space, with wattle-and-daub infil; relocated staircase now blocks rear window of housepart (original position not known).

Listing NGR: SD6110319378