Description

SE13NW BINGLEY BECKFOOT LANE SE105384 (west side)

6/46 Templar Cottage, 9.8.66 Beckfoot Farmhouse and Beckfoot Cottage (formerly listed as Beckfoot Farm House)

GV II

House in 3 occupations. Initialled and dated " TB 1617 " with mid-C17 addition and midC20 alteration. Large dressed stone, stone slate roofs. 2 storeys. Two 3-cell plan houses, attached in line forming a long range. House to left: T-shaped with cross-wing. All are double-chamfered mullioned windows, those to 1st floor have almost square reveals. 1st cell has 4-light window (lacking 2 mullions) with 3-light above. 2nd cell, housebody, has 2-light fire-window to left of 5-light window with 4-light and 2-light above. Gabled mid-C20 porch at junction with 3rd cell which has 4-light window with same above renewed in concrete. Rainwater spout at junction with earlier house. 2 ridge stacks. Left gable is coped with kneelers. Rear has other 3-light and 2-light windows. Left-hand return wall has 3-light window to 1st floor. Attached to right-hand return is earlier house of 1617. This may have been of 2 cells originally with 3rd cell added. 1st and 2nd cells both set forward of 3rd cell. 1st cell has 5-light window with hoodmould with 4-light above and doorway with composite jambs, Tudor-arched lintel with cyma-moulded surround date-stone set over. 2-light window above 2nd cell, set back, has 6-light window with cottage doorway with monolithic jambs taken out of one light, sill renewed in concrete. 5-light window above. 3rd cell, set back, has 4-light window with 3-light above and doorway with chamfered surround. Coped gables with kneelers. Those to right have lantern finials often associated with the Knights Templars; different finials to apex of each gable. 2 C20 stacks set forward from ridge. Rear: 3rd cell, to left, has Tudor-arched doorway with cyma- moulded surround. 2nd cell breaks forward and has 4-light window with 5 x 5-light mullioned-and-transomed window above. 1st cell has 2-light to left of 4 x 4-light mullioned-and-transomed window with 2-light window and 3-light window above

Interior: House dated 1617 has fine original corner fireplace with Tudor- arched lintel and moulded surround (cyma, step, cyma) and bold stops; stop-chamfered floor joists and spine-beams, one has groove to its soffit for panelling to divide the room. 1st floor has tie-beam with mortices for brace, wall-plate and post indicating that it was timber-framed originally Fireplace has square lintel with cyma-moulded surround. Division between two rooms has board-and-muntin panelling with triple reeded edges. Ground floor of 2nd cell has scarf-jointed spine beams,evidence of former bressumer and fire-hood now replaced by mid-C18 fireplace with monolithic jambs and basket-arched bressumer. King-post roof without struts.

Listing NGR: SE1050538424

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