Description

SD 81 NW RAMSBOTTOM (off) BURY OLD ROAD

10/131 Ridshaw Farmhouse and attached
- barn
- II

Farmhouse and barn under one roof, probably late C17, altered. Slobbered
rubble with quoins, stone slate roof with brick chimney close to left gable
(and modern brick chimney to front wall). Two-bay end-baffle-entry plan, 2
storeys, with single-storey porch at left end wall, 4-bay barn continued to
right. Entrance now by small single-storey extension up steps at junction
with barn; to left at ground floor are 2 altered windows with hoodmoulds, the
first with one mullion remaining, the second partly covered by the extension;
and at 1st floor two 3-light chamfered mullion windows. Single-storey gabled
porch continues at left end, doorway in its gable wall and small vertical
rectangular window left of this. Rear wall has, inter alia, a 2-light
firewindow, a single-light window, and a doorway, all with hoodmoulds.
Interior: inglenook fireplace with cambered bressumer, spere to former doorway
on left, 2 chamfered beams; lateral partition wall of large framing with
wattle panelling partly exposed. (NB: Plan-type closely resembles Sales's
Farmhouse, Sales's Lane, q.v.). Barn has altered openings, rear addition

Listing NGR: SD8114315580

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26604303

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