Description

NZ 0814 ROKEBY MORTHAM

13/142 Farmbuildings to east of Mortham Tower and attached walls

GV II

Planned foldyard group of farmbuildings, probably late C18. Coursed rubble with cut quoins and tooled-and-margined dressings; graduated stone slate roofs. Ranges around yard open to east. Single-storey side ranges each have central elliptical arch flanked by 3-bay round arcades; all arches keyed, some blocked; also boarded doors and small windows. East ends show boarded double doors under timber lintels; hip-ended roofs. 2 elliptical arches and slit vents to rear of north range. West range has 2-storey barn in centre; central boarded door re-using lintel of 2-light mullioned window, 2 tiers of slit vents, pitching door to left. Single-storey flanking parts have boarded doors and blocked openings. Rear elevation of barn shows central elliptical arch,with white brick voussoirs,under boarded pitching door; and part-slatted loft window.

Walls, with flat slab coping and roughly-shaped monolith gate piers, on east of yard and forming enclosures within yard.

Listing NGR: NZ0870114173

External Links

• Wikidata Q26596794

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)