Longridge Farmhouse And Outbuilding

BISHOPDALE B 6160 SD 98 SE (north-west side, off) 5/1 Longridge Farmhouse and outbuilding 25.3.69 GV II*

Marked as Long Ridge on 6" Ordnance Survey map. Farmhouse and outbuilding, now garage. House 1653, possibly with earlier origins. For George and Elizabeth Dodsworth. Rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 1:1:1 bays with central 2-storey projecting gabled porch and rear 2-storey outshut. Porch: old board door in quoined surround with moulded arris and triangular head within square chamfer, and above it inscription "GED 1653". String course, continuing along right return of porch; first-floor 2-light double-chamfered mullion window with hoodmould. Right return of porch: on each floor a chamfered round-headed single-light window. Inside porch: C20 part-glazed door in surround with moulded arris and triangular head within square chamfer, and on sunken spandrels ill-cut letters "C G" and "E" and above "1653". On ground floor of house, from left: chamfered round-headed fire window; 6-light double-chamfered mullion window with central king mullion and hoodmould; to right of porch, 5-light double-chamfered mullion window with continuous dripmould. First floor: 4-light double-chamfered mullion windows. Stacks at ends and to right of porch. House seems to have continued 1 bay to left, now garage on ground floor with loft above. Right jamb of garage opening from a chamfered quoined doorway. The string, now broken may have continued from the house. Interior: to left, in houseplace, large moulded beams and joist and chamfered, voussoired, segmental pointed- arched fireplace with salt box and beehive oven in rear wall, and to its right a chamfered round-arched doorway; in rear wall a chamfered straight- headed doorway to kitchen, which may be older; all 3 openings having stop- chamfered bases at same level; king mullion of window chamfered off at lower edge; in wall on right a chamfered triangular-headed doorway into parlour which has a chamfered triangular-headed fireplace and formerly a plaster frieze. In garage, part of blocked mullion window in rear wall, and to right, corbels formerly for first-floor beams.

Listing NGR: SD9604583190