Gain Lane Farmhouse And Attached Barn And Stables To Rear

SCHEDULE SEVENTY NINTH LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST COMPILED UNDER SECTION 54 OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1971

BD3 GAIN LANE SE1934 PUDSEY (north side) Gain Lane Farmhouse 3/34 and attached barn and stables to rear

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2 cottages now a single dwelling and attached barn, cart-sheds and stables. Early-mid C18. Thin coursed hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. Laithe- house plan with farmbuildings attached in U-shaped range to rear. 2 storeys. Main fronts: quoins. 2-bay house to right has former cottage doorways with tie-stone jambs (blocked) at end. Tall central doorway with monolithic jambs flanked by 2-light flat-faced mullioned windows with recessed mullions and 4-pane glazing. 1st-floor windows the same, but originally of 5 lights (one light solid). Coped gables with kneelers, that to right with stack, one other stack at junction with 3-bay barn. 3-bay to left which has segmental-arched cart-entry with stressed keystone and skewbacks, composite reinforced jambs and to right doorway with monolithic jambs (blocked). Attached to left gable of barn is extension which has 4 linked semicircular-arched entrances (blocked). Rear: house L-shaped with lean-to to left of doorway with tie-stone jambs. Stack at junction with barn. Barn: arched cart-entry as front but with inner returns each with doorways with tie-stone jambs. Addition has 2 open semicircular arches on a common square column. A low stable range at right angles links with long 11-bay single-storey outbuilding of 2 builds of 7 and 4 bays. This has 2 doorways with monolithic jambs and 9 windows with lintels and sills. Coped gables in ridge stack to right. Rear of this range has 12 chamfered rectangular ventilators and 3 doorways with monolithic jambs (one blocked).

Interior: barn has king-post roof, the tie-beams of large scantling straight- braced to ridge, lacking struts. 11-bay outbuilding has fish-bone king-post trusses, the northernmost bay with a set-pot removed but retaining shafting for former industrial use.

Listing NGR: SE1958234175