Description

UP HOLLAND

SD5205 LAFFORD LANE
783-1/7/46 (West side)
11/03/92 Rothwell House

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Mid C18, altered. Handmade red and
yellow brick in Flemish bond (sides and rear of red brick in
English garden wall bond), with sandstone rubble plinth and
slate roof. Rectangular double-depth 4-room plan. 2 storeys
and 2 windows, almost symmetrical; with a plinth of graduated
masonry approx 1m high; a segmental-headed doorway offset left
of centre, with a deep rough-brick arch and a keystone, and a
renewed board door; and cross-window sliding sash windows on
both floors, those at ground floor with similar arched heads
and keystones, and replacement sliding sashes without glazing
bars, and those at 1st floor with flat-arched heads,
lead-sheet sills and original small-paned leaded glazing.
Gable chimneys. The left gable wall has an inserted doorway to
the rear room, and various windows; the rear has an inserted
2-light sliding sash window in place of the original back
door, a staircase cross-window in the centre, an inserted
doorway in place of the former dairy window to the left, and
sliding sash windows of 2 and 3 lights at 1st floor. INTERIOR:
direct entry to left front room, chamfered beams in all ground
floor rooms, pegged oak doorcases with run-out chamfer and
batten-and-board doors with lug hinges both floors (dogleg
staircase and former dairy both altered). A good example of
its type and date. Forms group with wash-house approx 5m
south-west (qv).

Listing NGR: SD5232605845

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571496

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