Ridshaw Farmhouse And Attached Barn

SD 81 NW RAMSBOTTOM (off) BURY OLD ROAD

10/131 Ridshaw Farmhouse and attached - barn - II

Farmhouse and barn under one roof, probably late C17, altered. Slobbered rubble with quoins, stone slate roof with brick chimney close to left gable (and modern brick chimney to front wall). Two-bay end-baffle-entry plan, 2 storeys, with single-storey porch at left end wall, 4-bay barn continued to right. Entrance now by small single-storey extension up steps at junction with barn; to left at ground floor are 2 altered windows with hoodmoulds, the first with one mullion remaining, the second partly covered by the extension; and at 1st floor two 3-light chamfered mullion windows. Single-storey gabled porch continues at left end, doorway in its gable wall and small vertical rectangular window left of this. Rear wall has, inter alia, a 2-light firewindow, a single-light window, and a doorway, all with hoodmoulds. Interior: inglenook fireplace with cambered bressumer, spere to former doorway on left, 2 chamfered beams; lateral partition wall of large framing with wattle panelling partly exposed. (NB: Plan-type closely resembles Sales's Farmhouse, Sales's Lane, q.v.). Barn has altered openings, rear addition

Listing NGR: SD8114315580