Lane Head Farmhouse And Barn

THRUSCROSS WHIT MOOR ROAD SE 15 NW (west side, off)

Bramley Head 12/167 Lane Head Farmhouse and Barn

• II

2 houses, now house and barn. Early - mid C17 with mid C19 additions and alterations. Coursed gritstone rubble, graduated stone slate roofs. Quoins. 2-storey, 3-bay,C17 house with through passage, with a 2-storey, 2 bay C19 house built at right angles at left (west) end. C17 house, south front: central blocked doorway has deeply-chamfered quoined surround and an unusual lintel of triangular shape, the lower edge cut to a shallow 4-centred arch. Remains of recessed-chamfered mullioned windows to ground floor, of one and 3 lights to right and of 2 or more lights to left. 2 loading doors in plain surrounds to first floor. Rear: central doorway (blocked) as front. Left return: the west gable end of the house has been destroyed and the roof line altered where the later house meets it. Interior: a door lintel with similar chamfer to entrance door is on the right visible through the blocked doorway. C19 house, east front: central 6-panel door in narrow plain surround with tie stones. 4-pane sashes in plain surrounds with projecting sills throughout. Shaped kneeler and gable coping to left; end stacks. The roof continues to right and covers the west gable end of the earlier house. Derelict at time of resurvey. B Jennings, A History of Nidderdale, 1967, p 475.

Listing NGR: SE1299858746