Description

SD 94 SE SUTTON BENT LANE
5/91
10.9.54 Bent Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, 1658 (datestone). Squared rubble with ashlar above the first floor
windows where the roof has been raised. Stone slate roof with 2 chimneys. Two
storeys. The entrance side has a contemporary outshut with a 3-light double chamfered
window and 2 originally of 2 lights above. On the rear side the windows of the ground
floor are double chamfered under a string. They lack all mullions but were of 4, 6
and 2 lights: the central one is broken into by a plain doorway. Above the windows
are flush square mullioned. To the left the former stable has 3-light double
chamfered stone mullion window brought from an outbuilding at Crag Farm, West Lane.
Inside upstairs there is a circular plaster panel over a fireplace with a stylised
motif of grapes.
The "WAB" of the datestone which forms the lintel of the doorway stands for William
and Anne Barrett (A Wood, ed.: Sutton-in-Craven: The Old Community, 1973).

Listing NGR: SD9968244180

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26424775

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair