Description

SJ 99 NE
4/43
1.11.66

LONGDENDALE
BACK LANE
(west side)
No. 2 (Old Post
Office Farm)

G.V.
II

Includes left hand bay only of No. 50 MARKET STREET (west
side) which was formerly part of the same house. House,
"NWM 1694" (Nicholas and Martha Wagstaffe) on door lintel.
Squared coursed rubble with graduated stone slate roof and
brick stack. 2-bay baffle-entry plan with 2 storeys, a 2-
story porch,one room in depth and a slightly later wing
added to rear. Stone plinth and quoins. Symmetrical facade
with 5-light house-part window (with 3 mullions removed) and
three 3-light windows (one with mullions removed) all with
double-chamfered stone mullions. The central porch has an
off-centre chamfered door surround, a round-headed first
floor light, an owl hole and dove holes, and coped gable
with kneelers and ball finials. Central ridge chimney
stack. Rear has 2 windows with mullion removed. Round-
headed attic gable light. Interior has a wattle and daub
timber-framed partition on 2 floors.

Listing NGR: SJ9930695582

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26320821

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
• 
  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)