Description

SADDLEWORTH LEE SIDE SE 00 NW (east side) Lee Cross 4/195 Barn immediately south of Fairbanks Farm- - house G.V. II Barn and shippon incorporating a former house. "TBIB 1689" (Thomas Bradbury) on datestone although much of the barn is of early C18 and parts of 1792. Hammer-dressed watershot stone with corrugated metal roof. 2-bay 2-storey former house at the east of a long range. Quoins. The former house has 3 and 2-light ground floor windows and 3-light first floor windows all with recessed cavetto-moulded mullions. A hay door, which is only 1 of 3, has been inserted in the ground floor and like the others has a corbelled lintel. The right gable has two similar 2-light windows and 2 arched lights at attic level. The other gable, now an internal wall has an unusual paired arched light. The rear is obscured by a later parallel range, itself of 2 builds, which has 4, 2 and 3-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows. The barn also has quoins, a door with dressed surround between the 2 hay doors, a loft hatch, small pigeon-cote, kneelers and a later lean-to addition against left gable which has an arched light at attic level. The 2 hay doors have opposed doors on the rear; one with segmental-arched head, the other with dressed surround. Interior retains one early king-post roof truss with curved struts and carpenters marks.

Listing NGR: SE0081207447

External Links

• Wikidata Q26320943

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