Laneside Farm

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SK0395 WOODHEAD ROAD 921-1/9/26 (East side (off)) Laneside Farm

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Model farmhouse and farm buildings. c1899 with C20 alterations. Built for Lord Howard. Blue brick with red brick and ashlar dressings, plain tile roofs with overhanging eaves. STYLE: Swiss. EXTERIOR: 2 storey and single storey. Farm buildings ranged around 3 sides of courtyard with the farmhouse and dairy beyond to rear of east side. Prominent tower of 4 stages at north east corner. Square plan with double tier, bell canted, pyramidal roofs with weather vane finial, glazing bar windows to ground floor, single loft doors to granary above and single dormer to each face of lower roof, then wooden louvred ventilator top stage. Other extant buildings include large 2 storey shippon to east side, south front has central glazing bar window flanked by single cart entrances, above central round headed loft door flanked by single glazing bar windows. To west side of shippon, 2 walled pig styes, originally 5 and west range includes open 4 bay single storey cart shed with brick piers. Entrance to south has low curved walls and square gate piers with ashlar pyramidal caps. To north of north range remains horse gin. The farmhouse, L-plan with porch in angle. The dairy was originally intended to be thatched, and has hoodmoulds over window openings, an open verandah survives. The Smithy has been demolished. INTERIOR: not inspected, access denied.

Listing NGR: SK0381195314