Description

SJ 97 NE KETTLESHULME C.P. CLAYHOLES ROAD
(West Side)

3/72 Wright's Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse: earlier C17 with C19 alterations. Washed, coursed squared
buff sandstone rubble. Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge and 3
stone chimneys. T-shaped in plan. 2-storey, 3-bay north front.
Central bay steps one bay forward and has lean-to against ground
storey. 6-pane window with rubble hood mould above and semi-circular
headed niche in gable. 2 similar openings have windows, to right
side. Left end bay has window with remains of hood mould. Right end
bay has ovolo-moulded doorcase with a flat hood above lying behind C20
glass porch. Remains of 3-light stone mullion with hood mould above.
Interior: 3 rooms on ground floor. Door opens into dairy with 2
chamfered beams. Main room has heck post and screen and fire beam
forming inglenook. Ovolo-moulded beam in the ceiling. The linkage
and stone flywheel of a butter churn device operated by a foot treadle
in front of the living room fire and working the float in the churn in
the dairy survives. This was made by Goddard, a wheelwright who lived
in the farm in the last century.

Listing NGR: SJ9948979367

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26431909

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  For the Record
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)