Description

AIREBOROUGH MAIN STREET
SE 14 SE
LS 20 (north side)
Hawksworth
4/58 Hawkslyn
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GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C17, remodelled in C18, altered. Coursed squared
sandstone, roof of stone-coloured composition tiles. Two-unit plan with
continuous rear outshut under catslide roof, added wing set back at left end.
Two storeys. Main range; three 1st floor windows; lst-floor dripmould;
doorway offset to left of centre has plain lintel, windows have similar
surrounds and mullions: at ground floor a large window each side of the door,
perhaps formerly with mullions but now cross-window casements, and at right
hand end a single-light window; at 1st floor two 2-light windows and a
similar single light at right hand end. Single-bay wing to left has similar
windows. Chimneys on principal gables and gable of wing. Right hand return
wall has inter alia a former doorway altered as a window, and a very tall
doorway to the outshut (said to be entrance for horse); rear of less
interest, but has chimney on slope of roof at junction with outshut.

Interior: two C17 chamfered beams in left room, a similar beam in right-hand
room with scarf joint suggesting former firehood bressumer; large king-post
roof truss with V-struts, and many large taper-marks in the tie-beam; in
outshut the lower part of a flight of stone steps which were formerly
external access to rear upper room.

History: said to have been coaching inn, the stables having been on the
opposite side of the road.

Listing NGR: SE1646441843

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544435

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)