Description

SE 32 NW
5/99
26th September 1979

ROTHWELL LS26
OULTON LANE
(south side), Rothwell
Long Acre

GV
II

House, Earlier C18, incorporating parts of earlier (C17) building altered.
Mostly handmade brown brick in stretcher bond, with stone quoins, but earlier
part at right-hand end and rear of coursed sandstone blocks; stone slate
roof. L-plan, the earlier part forming a short receding wing at the
right-hand end; modern addition to rear of left end not included in the item.
Two storeys and 7 bays; rusticated long-and-short quoins, coved eaves; some
openings blocked or altered, but formerly all vertical-rectangular wide (a)
and narrow (b) in rhythmn a,a,b,a,a,b,a; former doorway in 5th at ground
floor altered as fixed window, former window in 3rd altered as doorway, 6th
blocked; and at 1st floor the 3rd, 5th and 6th blocked; gauged brick heads,
those at ground floor segmental and those above flat-arched; door with
fielded panels and 2-pane overlight; cross-windows with horizontal sliding
sashes in 4th at ground floor, 2nd and 6th at 1st fioor. Chimney to ridge and
right gable. Left gable has small inserted window. Right-hand gable of
squared sandstone up to 1st floor, with dripmould, has a 3-light mullioned
window at ground floor towards the rear, with "DAIRY" inscribed in the
lintel, a 2-light window above lacking the mullion, Rear has a 3-light
window at ground floor, doorway with cambered lintel in re-entrant of wing.

Interior: middle bay has 2 longitudinal beams with stopped ovolo-moulding,
the left ends carried on large moulded wooden corbels suggesting position of
former inglenook bressumer; some C17 panelling In kitchen in rear wing
(?former parlour).

Listing NGR: SE3482028176

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26480041

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