Hugh Rake Farmhouse And Attached Shippon

SD 82 SW 6/178

RAWTENSTALL, Crawshawbooth, CRIBDEN LANE, Hugh Rake Farmhouse and attached shippon

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Farmhouse, dated 1732 on porch, altered. Watershot coursed sandstone (whitewashed), stone slate roof with one chimney on the ridge and another at the right gable. Two bays with continuous rear outshut, projecting porch. Two storeys, almost symmetrical: offset slightly left of centre is a 2-storey gabled porch with oversailing short upper storey, doorway with lintel inscribed H I M 1732, and 2-light window to the upper floor; all windows have recessed chamfered mullions: to the left, 3 lights at ground floor (possibly a 4th light blocked) and 3 lights above, to the right 4 lights on each floor the lower closer to the centre; and there is a plain doorway to the left of the 1st bay. Left return wall has one vertical rectangular window on each floor, the upper with glazing bars; rear has small window to 1st bay, and recessed window of two 4-pane lights to the 2nd bay. Attached and stepped down to right (on sloping site) is 2-bay shippon, also 2 storeys, not whitewashed, with segmental-arched entrance.

Listing NGR: SD8044024824