Backridge Farmhouse And Farm Building Adjoining To South West

SD 718 427 BASHALL EAVES

SD 74 SW 10/4 Backridge Farmhouse and farm building adjoining to - south-west - II

House, mid C18th, altered. Squared sandstone rubble with stone slate roof. House of double-pile plan with central entry and end stacks. 2 storeys with attics, now of 4 bays, (some of the windows being insertions), with chamfered quoins and a string course. Windows sashed or sashed with no glazing bars, except for right-hand 1st floor casement. Bays I and 3 have architraves, bays 2 and 4 having plain stone surrounds. The door has a shouldered architrave with moulded dentilled cornice. To the right, and now forming part of the house, is a single-storey portion with a long 4-light window with plain stone surround and square mullions. An agricultural building to the left is of the same build as the house and has a blocked door and window on the ground floor, the door having a moulded cornice hood. On the 1st floor is a cross window with plain stone surround, having a mullion and transom of square section, and leaded glazing remaining in the upper lights. The left-hand gable has a 1st floor pitching door. At the rear is a cross window to the stair and an oval attic light with plain stone surround. Inside, between the entrance hall and the stair is an oak door of moulded panels with semi-circular head. It is set within a plain stone door surround with moulded imposts, segmental arch, and keystone. The dog-leg oak stair has an open string, turned balusters, ramped handrails and a cur tail.

Listing NGR: SD7180742771