Lower Shaw Farmhouse And Attached Barn

SE 01NW RIPPONDEN (former U.D.) (off) ROCHDALE ROAD (north SE 018192 side), Ripponden

5/127 Lower Shaw Farmhouse and attached barn (formerly 15.8.66 listed as Lower Shaw)

• II

House, initialled and dated "ISH 167?", with mid C19 attached barn. Thin coursed rubble, ashlar quoins, hammer dressed stone to barn, stone slate roof. Through passage with 2-storey porch to south front with gabled cross-wing to east and single cell to west. It is possible that the barn attached to this single-cell may be replacing a 3rd room. Barn has quoins, segmental arched cart entry with arch headed window over. Irregular break in stonework at junction with house. 7-light chamfered mullioned window with 4-light window over to 1st floor. Porch, under cat-slide roof with main range, has doorway with depressed Tudor arched lintel bearing inscription set within a tressure, and composite jambs with stop chamfered cyma moulded surround. 2-light window over to 1st floor. Cyma moulded string course continues over ground floor windows of east wing which has double chamfered mullioned windows; 2-light fire-window to left of 6-light window with king mullion with 5-light window over to 1st floor. Return walls blind. Rear of wing has quoins and chamfered mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights with 5-light double chamfered mullioned window over to 1st floor. Right hand return wall of wing has arch headed light with sunken spandrels. Through-passage doorway has low Tudor arched lintel with simple chamfered surround. Chamfered mullioned windows; 2-light to ground floor with 2 of 4 lights to 1st floor. Barn has doorway with tie-stone jambs.

Listing NGR: SE0186019244