35, Whitfield Cross

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SK0393SE WHITFIELD CROSS, Whitfield 921-1/15/112 (North side) 27/01/78 No.35

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Farmhouse, now house. 1773 with C19 and C20 alterations. Narrow coursed millstone grit, tooled ashlar dressings, stone slate roof and end stacks with watertabling. PLAN: 2 unit, off-centre entrance, principal room to left, parlour to right, with services to rear in outshut under catslide roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storey. Front has irregular 2 window range. Off-centre doorway with C20 door in flush ashlar surround, to left 4-light casement with single surviving central mullion and to right 3-light casement window, both with C20 diamond leaded casements. Above two 3-light windows with flush mullions and C19 casements flanking painted plaque inscribed 1773. Left return has former roof line visible and timber lintel to blocked doorway. Right return, rendered, has 2 first floor windows, that to front possibly in original opening, one ground floor window to rear of main house and small service doorway at mid floor level in outshut. INTERIOR: not inspected, but reputed to retain original beams, inglenook fireplace and stone flagged floor to principal room. Parlour with spine beam and timber flooring. Kitchen, workshop and larder with stone flagged floors. Original roof structure.

Listing NGR: SK0368093409