Lower Constable Lee Farmhouse

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SD 82 SW 6/204

RAWTENSTALL, Constable Lee, HOLLIN LANE Lower Constable Lee Farmhouse

(Formerly listed under HOLLIN ROAD)

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Farmhouse, C17 or earlier, altered, now house. Sandstone random rubble, slate roof with ridge chimney at junction of 1st and 2nd bays and external chimney at right side wall of wing. F-plan: 3 bays with projecting porch at junction of 1st and 2nd bays, projecting wing to front of 3rd bay. Two storeys; 2-storey porch (now buttressed) with slightly oversailing upper floor has large splayed lintel over doorway (now with glazed double doors) and inner doorway with chamfered surround at 1st floor a horizontal rectangular window with double-recessed head and a hoodmould; most windows altered, but 2nd bay has a 3-light flush-mullion window, gable of wing has windows altered, but 2nd bay has a 3-light flush-mullion window, gable of wing has hollow-moulded hoodmould over window on each floor; modern lean-to porch in re-entrant angle of wing. Right return wall has external chimney stack with horizontal set-offs carrying a diagonal chimney with moulded cap. Rear: lean-to outshut has blocked doorway with large lintel; several small windows including 2 at ground floor with slab cornices. Interior: in 2nd bay, flanking the doorways to the 3rd bay, are 4 unusual staves or wands c.1½ metres high and 10cm thick, with star-shaped heads formed of interpenetrating tetrahedrons (purpose unknown); in 3rd bay a fine moulded Tudor-arched stone fireplace and a saltcupboard; at 1st floor an exceptionally heavy cambered tie-beam.

Listing NGR: SD8109223750