Description

SE 01 SE TYLAS LANE Slaithwaite 5/481 No 1 - Birks and Barn

- II

Early C18. Part altered. House, barn and former cottage now barn. Millstone grit/ hammer dressed stone and rubble. Plinth. Pitched stone slate roof. Old ashlar chimney to east barn with tabling. 1/2 storeys. House: South East elevation: Ground floor; One 4-light stone mullioned window (double chamfered) (2 mullions removed). First floor; One 5-light stone mullioned window, (early C19). North West elevation: Blocked door with large lintel. Pitched one storey extension. South East barn: single storey (former cottage). South East elevation: Door with large chamfered lintel (probably original door). Sill has water drainage channels. One modern barn door. One 4-light stone mullioned window (double chamfered). South West elevation: Ground and attic levels each have one 2-light stone mullioned window (ground floor window blocked and part concealed below ground level). North West elevation: One 6-light stone mullioned window (2 mullions removed) (2 lights blocked). Interior: The barn is of cruck construction. There is a single cruck truss with pegged joints. One blade is on a stone footing, the other is set into the wall. The tie beam has been removed but there is a collar and two large purlins and ridge beam. At the east gable of the barn is an impressive chimney with monolithic chamfered lintel and stone quoins. It has stepped breast. The chimney indicates that the cruck building could have originally been used for domestic purposes. South West barn: Small door with large lintel. Barn door with quoins and rounded corbels supporting large lintel. Lean-to on west side with first floor small windows with tabled sill. There are several small holes drilled into quoins along the south elevation of the building for apparatus used in the drying of wool: "Wuzzing".

Listing NGR: SE0586214554

External Links

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Recommended Books

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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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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (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)