Description

SJ 5433-5533
14/76

PREES CP
LACON STREET (east side)
Nos.1 and 2, Manor House

01.11.85

GV
II
Farmhouse, now two cottages. Early C17, subdivided into two dwellings late C18 or early C19; later additions and alterations. Timber-framed on sandstone and brick plinth with painted brick infill and additions; asbestos slate roof. One storey and attic; apparently of three framed bays with central bay divided between the two dwellings.

Framing: close-set vertical posts with horizontal members to left and rectangular panels, two from cill to wall-plate, to right; corner posts to left gable end may be reused cambered tie beams. C20 casements to left and centre with late C19 casement to right; late C19 gabled eaves dormer directly above centre window. Entrances to left and right; C19 boarded doors with bracketed pedimented hoods. Prominent red brick stack immediately in front of ridge to right of centre and large truncated external end stack to left. Mid C19 two-storey gabled brick addition to rear on right with contemporary brick lean-to to left.

Interior: inspection not possible at time of resurvey (January 1986) but likely to be of interest.

Listing NGR: SJ5576333491

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26307644

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)