Birks Farmhouse And Attached Barn

SEDBERGH

SD69SE 162-1/6/281 14/06/84

CAUTLEY ROAD (East side (off)) Birks Farmhouse and attached barn (Formerly Listed as: CAUTLEY ROAD Birks)

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Farmhouse, with attached barn. Probably later C17, enlarged at an early date; altered. Coursed rubble with quoins, the front cream-washed; roof of slate and stone slate. The house is L-plan formed by a single-depth 2-unit range on east-west axis facing south, with a rear outshut added to the 2nd unit. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 windows, with a lean-to porch in the centre flanked by square C20 2-light casements, a 1-light fixed window to the right (probably a former fire-window), and three C20 casements at 1st floor. (Some of these windows were probably formerly mullioned, as the description in the list issued in 1984 refers to two 3-light windows at ground floor "of which one has lost one mullion", and the sill of a former 3-light mullioned window with chamfered mullions is now loose at the front of the house.) Gable chimneys, that to the right corbelled. Attached to the west end is a small barn forming a projected wing. The right-hand gable wall has a blocked former doorway next to the rear corner, with a shallow triangular head and chamfered surround (suggesting a former end-baffle-entry plan), and the added lean-to outshut has a blocked square window in this side. The rear has restored or modernised windows. INTERIOR: the former housepart in the 2nd bay has a built-in spice cupboard to the right of the present chimney-breast, with a plain panelled door on butterfly hinges, but has otherwise been refurbished; the parlour in the 1st bay has a chamfered axial beam and original joists, and a small original fireplace now blocked.

Listing NGR: SD6942494673