Description

SJ 98 NE MARPLE OLD HALL LANE (south side) Near Roman Lakes 7/125 Outbuildings immediately south-east of Old Hall Farmhouse (formerly listed as Outbuildings 20.12.67 at Bottoms Hall)

G.V. II

Farmbuildings and mill apprentices dormitory block. 1790s and C19. Built for Samuel Oldknow. Dressed stone, random stone with graduated stone slate and corrugated iron roofs. Long range of buildings forming an S shape, all of 2 storeys and enclosing a midden. East wing houses pigs on the ground foor with haylofts above: 12 bays with stone plinth, continuous first floor band, doors in bays 1 and 12, a series of semi-circular openings between flat pilasters, circular first floor pitching eyes and a pointed arch opening to the gable. The pitching eyes continue on the middle range which also has opposed cart entries with flattened elliptical rusticated keystone arch, 2 blocked cart entries, a driftway and a 3 x 1 haybarn with pointed arch gable openings and semi-circular arch side openings. The west wing houses apprentices dormitories on 2 levels beneath a mono-pitched roof.Total of 7 windows, a band and a door approached by a flight of steps. The machinery was formerly powered by waterwheel which still exists in the adjoining field.

Listing NGR: SJ9697188188

External Links

• Wikidata Q26551172

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record