Low Brigflatts

SEDBERGH

SD6491 BRIGFLATTS, Marthwaite 162-1/19/376 Low Brigflatts 16/03/54 (Formerly Listed as: BRIGG FLATTS Low Brigg Flatts)

GV II

Farmhouse, probably with attached barn; now house and farmhouse respectively. Original farmhouse dated 1677 over doorway in north wall; present farmhouse perhaps contemporary but remodelled and altered. Mixed random rubble, the north side roughcast, roof of slate with stone slate in the lower courses and stone ridge and gable copings. Single-depth rectangular plan on east-west axis, the original farmhouse being the shorter eastern portion, probably originally 2 bays and facing south. EXTERIOR: the present north front of this portion, 3 unequal storeys and 3 windows, has a blocked slightly segmental-headed doorway offset right, with painted stone surround, a small panel on the lintel with raised lettering "1677", and a hoodmould; to the left at the level of the lintel a small blocked 1-light window and left of this at ground floor a slightly larger 1-light window with chamfered surround; to the right, an inserted doorway; at 1st floor 3 small round-headed 1-light windows; and above that to the left a small blocked square window immediately under the eaves. The roof has a broad stone chimney on the ridge at the junction with the range to the right, a gable chimney to the left and gable coping with a kneelers. (The longer range to the right has a broad gabled porch offset left, a window left of this, and a doorway near the right-hand end flanked by 2 altered windows on each floor.) The south side of the original house has, in line with the ridge chimney, the left jamb and part of the lintel and hoodmould of a former opening at ground floor (either a doorway or a fire-window), the right-hand side now broken by an inserted doorway; immediately abutting this doorway a mullioned window now of 2 lights with a hoodmould which has a returned end to the right; and further right a 2-light mullioned window. Above these 3 original openings are: a blocked former 2-light window with a hoodmould (and lacking the mullion), a 3-light window and a 2-light window. The windows on both floors have chamfered flush mullions, and hoodmoulds with returned ends. Further to the right at 1st floor are remains of a former mullioned window, and above this a small blocked window immediately under the eaves. (The longer range to the west has an inserted or badly altered window on each floor of the nearer bay, and a large single-storey outbuilding at right-angles.) INTERIOR of original house remodelled.

Listing NGR: SD6407291086