White Barn Door Farmhouse

MAWDESLEY BLACK MOOR ROAD SD 41 SE 12/155 White Barn Door Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse. Dated 1706 on porch; altered. Stone plinth, walls of handmade brick with stone quoins, finished with modern brick, tiled roof. Two-bay end-baffle-entry plan. Two storeys, eaves probably raised; 2-storey gabled porch at left end has board door offset to left, a decorated datestone above it lettered in relief H A, and a 2-light sliding sash above; to the 1706 right the 2nd bay breaks forward slightly and has a blocked doorway with splayed stone lintel; otherwise, two C19 3-light casements on each floor, those at ground floor with splayed stone heads. Small brick lean-to at left end. (C19 addition at right end not included in the item). Interior: altered, but each bay has 2 large chamfered beams, those in the 1st bay (housepart) with cyma stops, and exposed joists similarly decorated; in the housepart the stopped ends of the beams are tenoned into a lateral beam in front of the present chimney stack, which may have been part of an inglenook.

Listing NGR: SD4828614889