Description

HIGH BICKINGTON HIGH STREET, High Bickington
SS 60 20
15/101 Howards and adjoining linhay
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GV II

House and adjoining linhay. Late C18 or early C19, remodelled in the early C20.
Rendered, probably over cob or stone rubble. Uncoursed stone rubble addition.
Welsh-slate roof, gabled-ended to right and hipped to left (formerly thatched).
Lean-to roof at rear, hipped to right-hand corner. Rendered end stack to right with
early C20 red brick top section and early C19 brick end stack to left. Linhay of
rendered cob with gable-ended C20 clay-tile roof.
Plan and development: Two-room central-entrance plan with external end stack to right
and integral end stack to left. Central staircase. Probably C19 two-storey lean-to
outshut at rear. Remodelled in the early C20. Parallel linhay at rear linked by
short section of wall at right-hand end. Rendered and reroofed in the early C20.
Two storeys.
Exterior: Symmetrical 3-bay front; early C20 glazing bar sashes, 16-pane to first
floor (each leaf of 4 x 2 panes) and tripartite to ground floor (consisting of
central 16-pane sash with side lights). First floor windows with louvred shutters.
Central door with 4 lower panels and 3 glazed upper panels, pegged chamfered wooden
frame and gabled lattice wooden porch with shaped barge boards. Right-hand side of
rear outshut has first-and ground-floor late C20 two-light wooden casements (in old
openings) that to ground floor with wooden lintel. Linhay at rear has 3-bay open
front with square piers. The short section of linhay wall has a boarded door with
chamfered wooden frame.
Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS6007420522

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26612074

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings