Description

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SE 23 NW
8/150

HORSFORTH
SCOTLAND LANE LS 18 (east side, off)
Former farmhouse approximately 10 metres north-east of Ling Bob Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as "Adjacent farmhouse ...at Ling Bob Farm")

10.12.1984

GV
II

Farmhouse, now store. Probably later C17, altered in C19 and subsequently. Coursed squared sandstone in large blocks, stone slate roof. Two-unit end-lobby-entry plan with continuous rear outshut. Two storeys; continuous dripmould, stepped over shaped lintel of former doorway at left end (altered as window); to the right, the jambs and head of a former recessed mullioned window (removed to make a square wagon entrance) and further to the right a deeply-recessed four-light mullioned window lacking the first and third mullions; at first floor three coupled C19 sashed windows with plain surrounds (damaged or lacking glazing). Gable copings with moulded kneelers; cut-down chimney at left gable, single-flue chimney at right gable. Left return wall has inserted window at first floor; right-hand return wall has a two-light recessed mullion window near the front corner, three inserted windows further to rear.

Rear: cat-slide roof to single-storey rear wall, which has remains of two square recessed mullion windows in the centre (one blocked), a large ragged opening broken through the wall to the right, an inserted doorway to the left (a later addition to this corner, not included in the item).

Interior: housebody in left half has large chamfered beam with scarf joint approx. Two metres from present chimney breast (indicating former firehood); partitioned lower end; otherwise, altered or damaged.

Listing NGR: SE2411739776

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552157

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (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)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]