Sink Fall Farmhouse With Attached Farm Buildings

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27SW RAKES MOOR LANE 708-1/4/106 (South side) 06/05/76 Sink Fall Farmhouse with attached farm buildings

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Farmhouse and cottage with attached farm buildings. C18 altered C19. Red sandstone partly roughcast; graduated slate roof partly replaced by corrugated sheets. L-shaped, elongated range: 2-storey house and cottage have 2:1 windows to 1st floor; 6-bay barn under same roof on left; later 2-storey cow house wing to front left. Both farmhouse and barn have 2- storey wings to rear. House: C20 door within gabled, sandstone porch flanked on each floor by 6-pane sashes with projecting sills and stone lintels. Cottage to right has panelled door and paired 4-pane sashes beneath 6-pane sash. Right gable with ashlar copings and C19 stone stack; 2 matching ridge stacks. Barn: altered waggon entrance with doorway to right. Cow house front gable has segmentally-arched door beneath 3 slits; its right return has 3 small openings and loft door flanked by slits. Rear of house: wing lit by 2-light, square-faced mullioned window to each floor; 3 similar windows to main range on left. INTERIOR of farmhouse: fielded 2-panel pine doors off landing. Barn has C18 roof of principal-rafter trusses with double purlins. Cow house: pattern-book, king-post truss. Floor framing of rear wing to barn suggests former use as horse gin.

Listing NGR: SD2117973560