Description

TARLETON LIVERPOOL OLD ROAD
SD 41 NE
Sollom
7/55 Cross Farmhouse
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GV II

Farmhouse, now house. C17, altered in C19 and C20. Mostly handmade brick,
some common brick, stone slate roof with projecting eaves. Four bays with
rear baffle entry (now covered by lean-to addition to rear of 3rd and 4th
bays). Now 2 low storeys, but walls raised with c.10 courses of common
brick, suggesting formerly 11/2 storeys; south front has gabled dormers to
the 2nd and 3rd bays, wooden latticed porch to doorway in 4th bay, board
door at left end, 4 segmental-headed 3-light sliding sashes at ground
floor, 3 at 1st floor (including the dormers) and a 2 light window over the
porch; mostly with glazing bars; chimney in front of ridge at junction of
2nd and 3rd bays, and gable chimneys. Rear of less interest. Interior:
house part in 3rd bay has inglenook with heck to baffle entry from rear,
stopped ovolo-moulded firehood bressummer, 2 chamfered beams; 4th bay has 2
similar beams. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SD4550518762

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26330752

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)