Shrog Products And Pickwikett, Low Fold

SE 23 NW 8/13

AIREBOROUGH NEW ROAD SIDE LS19 (west side, off) Rawdon Shrog Products and Pickwikett, Low Fold

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Farmhouse, now office and dwelling. Dated 1614 on relocated datestone over 1st floor door; altered and extended. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof. Rectangular 3-unit plan with rear outshut to left-hand end. Two storeys; front (south) wall mostly rebuilt in C18, has a flight of rebuilt stone steps at right-angles to the facade near the right-hand end of the 2nd bay, leading to a doorway at 1st floor with plain surround and relocated lintel with raised lettering in panels "1616" "NR" (reversed N); to the left, two 3-light windows on each floor, all with flat-faced flush mullions and plain surrounds, and that at ground floor right coupled with a doorway to its left, with plain surround; left corner, of large squared masonry (probably original C17), rises to corniced corner chimney. Third bay (Pickwikett) has altered openings and modern glazed porch. Ridge chimney at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, another chimney at right-hand gable. Left gable wall (part covered by attached greenhouse) has inter alia a 2-light double-chamfered mullioned window at ground floor and another above (mullion replaced). Rear: middle bay has a 3-light double-chamfered mullioned window on each floor; raised outshut.

Interior: altered, but retains some original features, principally stop- chamfered beams and joists in 1st and 2nd ground-floor bays, that in the 2nd with scarf-joint indicating former firehood bressumer, and a Tudor-arched cross-corner fireplace in the 1st bay; longitudinal partition with plain joists to rear; 1st floor altered as workshop in C18.

Listing NGR: SE2071339822