Description

SE13NW BAILDON THOMPSON LANE SE143385 Baildon Green (north side)

6/42 Midgley Farmhouse 15.12.75 and Nos 1 and 3 Midgley Farm Cottages (formerly listed as GV Midgley Farmhouse with Cottages Nos. 1 and 3 and II Barns) House and 2 cottages, now 3 dwellings. Late C17 house with mid-C18 additions to both ends. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys with single-storey outshut to rear to house which has 2-cell direct entry plan. Six 1st-floor windows in all. Reads from left: former dairy, added to house, has doorway with sill-tie to left of 3-light flat-faced mullioned window to left of blocked taking-in-door. House has quoins, double-chamfered mullioned windows, all lacking some mullions, of 4 lights with 3-light above, 5 lights with 4-light above, added porch with weathered plinth, original studded oak plank door and inner doorway with stop-chamfered surround; 2-light window. Gable stacks. No 3 has doorway with monolithic jambs and 2-light flat-faced mullioned window with 3-light window above. No 1 has doorway with tie-stone jambs and 2-light flat-faced mullioned window with 3-light window above. No 1 has doorway with tie-stone jambs and to either side a 2-light window with two (4-light windows above. Coped gable with kneelers and stack to right, one other stack to ridge.

Interior: arcade-plate has groove to its soffit indicating the former existence of a timber division wall between rear service rooms. The taking-in-door possibly indicates the former practice here of textile manufacture. RCHM (England) report.

Listing NGR: SE1436138565

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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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House