Description

SD 91 NW LITTLEBOROUGH BLACKSTONE EDGE
OLD ROAD
(south side)

1/6 Higher Windy Bank
- Farmhouse and
adjoining barn

- II
Farmhouse and barn. Late C17 with C18 alterations and C19
barn. Hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof.
2-bay 2-storey house with barn to right. Quoins and
projecting plinth. Central porch has cyma-moulded door
surround, obtuse-angled lintel and a coped parapet with
corner dies above a band on the same lines as that at Old
Bent House (q.v.) which is dated 1691 and was built by
Joseph Buckley. Right bay is obscured by a later outshut
addition with 1 and 3-light flat-faced windows, the left bay
has 4-light flat-faced mullion window on each floor (with 1
light blocked) but has a hoodmould of a former C17 window.
Diagonally set shafts to gable chimney stacks, that to right
projecting. Right gable has two 2-light double-chamfered
windows. Rear with eaves raised is obscured by large
addition. The barn uses watershot stone and has a round-
headed cart entry, a segmental-headed shippon door and other
door and window openings.

Listing NGR: SD9453416554

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26321238

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)