Description

SD 73 SE SIMONSTONE SCHOOL LANE

3/61 Cockshutts Farmhouse and Cockshutts Farm Cottage 17.12.1968 formely listed as Cockshott 's Farmhouse) II

Farmhouse, probably C16 enlarged in C17, now 2 dwellings. Slobbered thin sandstone rubble (except wing which is faced in squared sandstone), stone slate roof with a chimney on the ridge at the junction of the bays, one at the right gable, and another at the rear corner of the wing. T-shaped: 2-bay through-passage plan hall-range with projecting stair-turret porch to 2nd bay, and crosswing at left end. Two storeys; 2-storey porch with carried-down roof has chamfered doorway to left, round headed light to right; hallpart has a 5-light window with recessed ovolo and fillet moulded mullions and a hoodmould, an inserted door close to the wing on the left, at 1st floor a similar 2-light window and a 12-pane sash. Gable wall of wing has windows of 5 lights at ground floor and a 4 lights above, both with cavetto-moulded mullions and hoodmoulds. Right return wall has 2 small deeply-chamfered round-headed lights on each floor (one blocked); rear of this part has 3 similar windows at 1st floor, and at ground floor 2 small windows and a wide shouldered opening to a recessed doorway to the through-passage; rear of hallpart has, inter alia, quoins to the junction, a recessed 2-light window at 1st floor (lacking the mullion), and a little square light above the back door next to the wing; rear gable of wing has two 2-light windows at ground floor and another above. Interior: crudely-chamfered beams in the hallpart, and a smokehood in the chamber above; chamfered stone doorways to both rooms in the crosswing (both of these made like external doorways, and one of them inside out); parlour in front bay of wing has 2 beams supported by exceptionally large moulded corbels in the outer wall; kitchen in rear bay has small inglenook fireplace; wing has collar truss roof.

Listing NGR: SD7763534540

External Links

• Wikidata Q26530787

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