Description

NY 52 NE LOWTHER MELKINTHORPE

10/157 Larch Cottage with
barn and stable
adjoining

GV II

Farmhouse now private house, with barn and stable. Mid C18. Squared blocks of
red sandstone with flush quoins, under graduated greenslate roof with red
sandstone chimney stacks. Stable mixed sandstone rubble. 2 storeys, 2 bays
with right central barn and right stable: 3 builds, now under common roof.
Central C20 door in stone surround. Yorkshire-sash windows in red sandstone
surrounds showing remains of the removed central flat stone mullions. Barn has
large off-centre segmental-arched cart entrance and blocked right doorway.
Stable has paired flat-headed doorways under loft doorway, all with plank doors
and stone surrounds. Marked as Lilac House on OS map. Listed for group value
with Clematis Cottage and Sycamore Cottage.

Listing NGR: NY5564625161

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26438436

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)