Birch Close Farmhouse And Attached Cottage

SE14SW BINGLEY HIGH ELDWICK SE138417

2/85 Birch Close Farmhouse and attached cottage

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House and attached cottage in single occupation. House, mid-late C17; cottage, late C18. House, rubble brought to course; cottage, hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roofs. 2 storeys. House, to left has 3-cell baffle-entry plan with 2 storey porch at junction of 2nd and 3rd cells. All are double-chamfered mullioned windows mostly lacking mullions, but formerly of 3-lights with 2-light above; 3-light, with lowered sill, 3-light above; 4-light with 3-light above (altered to a single light). Porch has quoined angles, coped gable with kneelers and flat-arched doorway with chamfered surround. Inner doorway has stop-chamfered jambs but altered lintel. 2 stacks to ridge. Cottage, to right has higher roof. single cell., two lst-floor windows. Doorway with monolithic jambs on right. To left, on both floors, a 2-light flat-faced mullioned window with recessed mullion in raised plain-stone surround retaining 4-pane sashes. Single 4-pane sash window over door. Gable stacks. Coped gable with kneelers to right.

Interior: house, porch has stone stairway to 1st floor and 2 doorways one to housebody and one to service room. Both have large-scantling beams to ceilings with stop-chamfered spine beams and floor joists.

Listing NGR: SE1383641694