Slaters Farmhouse

SD 53 NW 4/121

WHITTINGHAM WHITTINGHAM LANE Slaters Farmhouse

11.11.1966

GV II

Farmhouse, dated 1683 on porch but probably earlier, altered. Roughcast brick painted white, slate roof. Three-bay baffle-entry plan with porch in line with ridge chimney at junction of 1st and 2nd bays, rear outshut to 3rd and part of 2nd bays, incorporating staircase. Two storeys; single-storey gabled porch has open entrance under wooden lintel, datestone above lettered in relief S T:A 1683, peephole in left side wall, wooden side benches, inner doorway with chamfered stone surround, and above the lintel a brick label with double-returned ends and 2 inverted L-shaped extensions rising from the centre to a feature which may have been a panel for a former datestone (now broken by the porch roof). To left, 1st bay rebuilt as garage and store; to right, 2 vertical rectangular windows on each floor; coupled chimneys at right gable. Rear: inter alia, outshut has 4-light brick mullioned window at ground floor, and similar 2-light stairlight with a label. Interior: housepart and 2 service rooms have chamfered beams, that in the housepart scarf-jointed; at 1st floor, timber-framed partition walls, one large cambered beam with cyma stops (3rd bay), and in 2nd bay a continuous lateral partition which may have been a smoke bay.

Listing NGR: SD5421836184