Description

SD 52SE
9/121

WALTON-LE-DALE,
GOUGH LANE
Crow Trees

27.11.1972

II*

Farmhouse, now house, early C17 or earlier with later alterations and
additions. Gable end to road. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof
with ridge chimneystack and chimney at left gable. Three-bay plan with
through-passage behind chimneystack; short outshut to rear of 1st bay
(modern extension behind this, and addition at right end, not included
in the item). Two storeys. Front wall has lozenge-shaped patterns of
headers, (3 at ground floor and 8 above); door in 3rd bay, a modern
gabled canopy over it; left of door the 1st and 2nd bays have double-
chamfered stone mullion windows with hoodmoulds at ground floor (3 and
6 lights); right of door is one flush mullion window of 3 lights, and
there are 5 similar windows at 1st floor, all of 2 lights except that
in 2nd bay which has 4. Left gable has 3-light double-chamfered stone
mullion window with hoodmould on each floor, two other windows, of 4 and
2 lights, and a narrow attic light near the apex. Rear wall has 5 windows,
3 with stone mullions.
Interior: a full cruck truss incorporated in partition of 2nd and 3rd
bays, one blade having "1689" incised on it; inglenook with stone heck,
ovolo-moulded bressummer, salt cupboard and blocked fire window;
chamfered beams in 2nd bay, quarter-round moulded in 1st and 3rd bays;
open-well staircase of C17 type with barley sugar balusters. Upper floor
has evidence of former smoke bay.

Listing NGR: SD5803524463

Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)