Description

SD 82 SW RAWTENSTALL OLD STREET
New Church

6/224 Nos 2 to 6 (even)
7.6.1971 (formerly listed under Newchurch)
GV II

Farmhouse, probably C16, altered, now 3 dwellings. Flat sandstone rubble with
quoins, stone slate roof with 2 chimneys on the ridge and one at the right
gable (and now 3 skylights). Three-bay plan with through passage originally
to right side of chimney stack at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays. Two storeys;
original entrance (now door to No.6) has moulded Tudor-arched surround, the
head undercut in a massive lintel; original recessed hollow-chamfered mullion
windows to housepart (No.4) and 3rd bay (No.6): left of doorway a 2-light
firewindow and left of this a large window of round-headed lights with hollow
spandrels (4 lights surviving, another at left end broken by inserted glazed
door), and right a similar 4-light window; all these with hoodmoulds. First
floor has three square-headed 3-light windows above those at ground floor.
First bay (No.2) has larger and later recessed hollow-chamfered mullion
windows; 4 lights on each floor, the lower with a hoodmould broken at the left
end by an inserted door.

Listing NGR: SD8342122380

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26457682

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)