Description

STOKE CLIMSLAND LIDWELL
SX 37 SE
8/155 Higher Lidwell
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GV II

Shown on OS map as Higher Lidwell Farmhouse. Farmhouse, now house. Late
C17 with later additions and alterations. Roughly coursed slate-stone rubble
with granite quoins and end stack; slate roof. 2 storeys. Four C20 casements
directly below eaves and 2 to ground floor with granite lintels inserted
late C20, one to either side of roughly central half-glazed door under C20
gabled porch. Another half-glazed door under lean-to hood to far left.
Integral end stack to right with drips and cloam oven projection. Rear has
3-light chamfered flat-faced mullion window to ground-floor right and cill
or lintel of mullion window reused to centre first-floor window. External
lateral stack with cloam oven projection.
Interior: Much altered in late C20 but retains 3 original joists to right
ground-floor room, which has large inglenook fireplace with wedged voussoirs
and keystone. Bread oven of well-constructed granite blocks to right and
cloam oven to left. Smaller fireplace to back wall also has cloam oven.
Steeply-pitched 7-bay collar truss roof with cambered collars and original
trenched purlin to front visible in roof space.

Listing NGR: SX3788174579

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514976

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)