Mill Dam House With Barns Attached To North And South Ends

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SD6987 GAWTHROP 162-1/23/172 Mill Dam House with barns attached 14/06/84 to north and south ends (Formerly Listed as: GAWTHROP Mill Dam House and barn attached to north)

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Farmhouse, with attached barns. Late C17 or early C18; enlarged and altered. White-painted random rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. Single-depth 2-unit plan on north-south axis facing east with a broad rear wing, lean-to addition in the angle with this, large barn continued to south and smaller barn continued to north. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys (plus attic which is not expressed externally) and 5 windows. The ground floor has a square-headed doorway in the centre, 2 small 2-light casements to the left (the first of these with the rubble voussoirs of a former segmental-headed opening above it), an oblong 3-light casement to the right and a rectangular top-hung casement right of that. The upper floor has 5 similar top-hung casements grouped 2 and 3. Wrought-iron gutter brackets (continued along barn to left). Small extruded gable chimney to right, ridge chimney at junction to left. The north gable has a small blocked attic window. The barn continued to the left has a wagon doorway next to the junction with the house, with a timber lintel and board doors, and a square-headed stable door to the left. The lower barn to the right has a prominent lean-to in the centre and a wagon doorway immediately to the right of that with harr-hung doors. Rear: the gable of the wing has irregular fenestration including rubble voussoirs of 2 former windows at ground floor and a blocked 1-light window to left at 1st floor; and a corbelled chimney with a short cylindrical shaft, the extruded stack rising by 2 sideways steps from corbels offset to the right (like that on rear wing of Gawthrop hall, qv); the lean-to has a chimney; and the barn to the left has a segmental-headed wagon doorway with rubble voussoirs. INTERIOR: light partition wall on right-hand side of entrance hall with muntin-and-rail panelled door; open-well staircase with closed string, square newels and turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SD6933487403