Rue Crofts And Attached Barn To North

SEDBERGH

SD69SW SLACKS LANE, Marthwaite 162-1/5/386 (West side (off)) 14/06/84 Rue Crofts and attached barn to north (Formerly Listed as: SLACKS LANE, Marthwaite Rue Crofts and attached barns to north and south)

GV II

Farmhouse now house, with attached barn now store. Dated 1711 on spice-cupboard; enlarged and remodelled probably in early to mid C19, and recently altered. Slobbered rubble with quoins, slate roofs with some stone slate to the rear slopes. U-plan formed by 2-unit transitional double-depth house on north-south axis facing west, with side wings attached at both ends (that to north the barn), each with a wing projecting to the west. EXTERIOR: the house, 2 storeys and 2 windows, now has a small gabled porch in the centre protecting a doorway with C20 part-glazed door, flanked on each floor by 2 large rectangular windows with recent multi-pane joinery: that to the right at 1st floor is crossed internally at half-height by the ceiling of the upper room, and to the right of it is the lintel of a former 1-light window. Gable chimneys. The re-entrant side of the south wing has an oblong window with glazing bars at ground floor, and its gable wall has a similar window at ground floor and a rectangular 2-light casement above. The rear wall of the main range has (inter alia) three 2-centred arched windows at 1st floor ,that in the centre larger and with Y-tracery. The former barn attached to the north has a square window at ground floor of the re-entrant and a rectangular window at 1st floor of the gable wall. INTERIOR: the former housepart in the south bay has 2 lateral beams, a muntin-and-plank rear partition wall, a large C18 rectangular fireplace with a corbelled lintel and moulded surround including a moulded false keystone, and to the right of this a square spice-cupboard with a fielded panel which has incised lettering "D / R R / 1711"; the chamber above (which is the room with the ceiling crossing the window) has a muntin-and-plank enclosure of a former smoke-hood. The north bay has been raised and remodelled. The former barn to south is now integrated at first floor level with the house.

Listing NGR: SD6360192984