Description

SD 73 SE SIMONSTONE BLACKBURN ROAD

3/55 Workhouse Farm
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- II

Workhouse and associated farmhouse, probably early C19, altered, now (1984)
mostly unoccupied. Sandstone rubble, stone slate roofs, the farmhouse having
a ridge chimney and gable chimneys, the barn attached to it gable coping with
a finial at the north end, the former workhouse range a single chimney cowl on
the ridge. L-shaped complex, the farmhouse gable to road on north-south axis
with linking cartshed and barn in the same range, and the former workhouse
range joined at a right angle to the west side of the barn. Single-depth low
2-storey workhouse of random rubble in 5 bays in length, with a single-storey
lean-to at the west end, the partitioned 5th bay lofted with a flight of
external steps to a raised doorway and another doorway below; the remainder
has rectangular windows, some with glazing bars and others variously altered
or damaged, and adjoined under the same roof at the east end is a projecting
porch with wagon doors to the barn. The interior of the workhouse has been
gutted, but a small fireplace remains at 1st floor level of the partition wall
to the 4th/5th bays. The barn at the south end of the east range is 3 bays
and 2 higher storeys, its formerly colonnaded left corner now filled in.
Linking the left gable wall of the barn to the farmhouse is a small set back
2-storey cartshed with open segmental arch spanning the full width and a
window at 1st floor; the farmhouse is 3 bays and 2 storeys with 2 plain
doorways and 3 windows on each floor, mostly sashed but damaged except coupled
4-pane sashes in the centre of the ground floor; rear has four 4-pane sashes
on each floor. History: unusual survival of parish workhouse pre-dating Poor
Law Amendment Act 1834.

Listing NGR: SD7800933385

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26531860

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)