Slate Pits Farmhouse

ACCRINGTON (off) PLANTATION STREET SD 72 NE 5/27 Slate Pits Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse, C17, part altered in C18. Rubble, stone slate roof with 2 ridge chimney stacks. Three-bay baffle-entry plan with rear outshut (dairy) to 2nd bay, and 3rd bay extended forwards in C18 to make cottage. Two storeys; large lean-to porch at junction of 1st and 2nd bays has quoins, moulded doorcase with Tudor-arched head, and small chamfered window in right side. There is a similar window beneath the eaves above the porch, and the whole building has 7 double-chamfered stone mullion windows: in the front, left of porch one of 5 lights with a hoodmould, and at 1st floor 2 of 4 lights; in left return wall at 1st floor, a 2-light window with a hoodmould; at right end one 3-light window on each floor, the lower lacking one mullion, the upper having small square lights; and in side of outshut a 2-light window. Front of cottage in 3rd bay has door at right side, a 3-light flush mullion window at ground floor and a similar but smaller 2-light window above. Interior: beams set on edge; partly exposed roof trusses at 1st floor; part of moulded plaster frieze with gryphons at 1st floor of 1st bay. (Ainsworth Homesteads pp.38-40)

Listing NGR: SD7793529054