The End Cottage, The Old Stables and The Barn, Tippetts Farm

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SD 82 SW 6/180

RAWTENSTALL COWPE Tippetts Farm The End Cottage, The Old Stables and The Barn

(Formerly listed as Lower Tippett Farmhouse and attached barn, (off) COWPE ROAD)

II Two farmhouses and attached barn forming a single range of building, in three builds probably later C18; now in course of renovation as three dwellings. Watershot coursed sandstone blocks, slate and stone slate roof (barn roofless at time of survey).

Houses single pile, 2 bays + 2 bays, with added kitchen to front of house on left, and vaulted well house to rear. Two storeys; single storey gabled kitchen with chimney at gable has plain doorway at the junction, one window in this side and one in the end wall, and cellar below; this house has a stepped triple-light window at first floor left and three other windows. House in centre of range has central plain doorway (lintel raised), a four-light slab mullioned window to the left, a stepped triple-light window on each floor to the right, and two other windows at first floor. Vertical joint to barn on right, which is now a shell with round-arched wagon entrance in centre, small square openings each side, and plain doorways each end. Rear of the range was originally back-to-earth, has been excavated and rebuilt, but formerly underground vaulted well-house survives.

Interior: entirely rebuilt except cellar and wellhouse, which has stone slab shelves etc., the wellhouse also a stone cistern for spring water.

Listing NGR: SD8336220968