Stable, Granary Range, Cottage And Attached Archway East Of Moseley Farmhouse

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SE24SW SMITHY LANE, Cookridge 714-1/1/643 (West side (off)) 05/08/76 Stable, granary range, cottage and attached archway east of Moseley Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: SMITHY LANE, Cookridge Former cottage at Moseley Farm immediately east of Farm House)

GV II

Stables or byres with granary/hayloft over, once converted to cottage with added bay, and archway linking to single-aisled barn. C17 farm range, S bay converted to cottage with taller bay added late C19. Coursed gritstone rubble, stone slate and grey slate roofs. Quoins. 2-storey, 3-bay C17 range has a chamfered doorway at each end and 2 inserted or enlarged windows between, a sash left and ventilated stable window right; 3 evenly-spaced single-light windows to upper storey, with chamfered surrounds to left and centre, the right window enlarged. On the right return a fine stone stair to chamfered doorway with owl hole above; to right of the stone steps a linking wall with chamfered doorway opening onto the path down to Moseley Farmhouse (qv). Ridge stack between bays 1 and 2, gable coping right and raised to added bay roof on left. Rear: a 4-pane sash and small square part-glazed window above right and a plate-glass sash to added bay. 4-pane sashes in the S wall of the added bay. INTERIOR: left end (cottage) only inspected; door opens into foot of boxed-in stairs, living room/kitchen right with cast-iron range and set pot surviving; cross-beam with deep chamfer and joists exposed. A rare survival of a C17 farm building, the C19 addition to cottage at the S end is reputed to have taken place when the bleach works' chimney was demolished (the base remains down slope to west) and the stone was used for the end bay.

Listing NGR: SE2427840646