Description

SD 92SW TODMORDEN (former M.B.) WHITE SLACK GATE
SD 928205

5/321 White Slack

II

Laithe-house. Early C18. Watershot masonry, ashlar quoins, stone slate roof.
2 storeys. Double-pile on plan single cell with another cell taken out of barn
to ground floor only with hay-loft over. All are double chamfered mullioned
windows of 6 lights to both floors. Some mullions removed from ground floor
window. Doorway with tie-stones. 2-light window. Segmental arched cart entry,
carried on long skewbacks, has inner entry formed by portal. Doorway into added
cell in re-entrant angle. Mistal doorway at lower level to right hand corner.
Chamfered rectangular ventilators. Left hand return wall has 2 taking-in doors
with tie-stone jambs (blocked). Rear has similar disposition. Kneelers without
copings. Single stack to ridge.
Interior: Barn of 3 bays formed by 2 tall stone pointed arches with well
dressed voussoirs. The building is one of group in the Todmorden region that
have stone arched barns instead of timber trusses. This would possibly appear
to be the earliest example, the house having double chamfered mullioned
windows.

Listing NGR: SD9283520491

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26524628

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)