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In the entry for:

SD 84 SE COLNE LANGROYD ROAD

7/92 Langroyd Farmhouse and attached 29.1.53 outbuildings

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The entry shall be amended to read:

SD 84 SE COLNE LANGROYD ROAD

1317-/7/92 Langroyd Farmhouse and attached outbuilding

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Farmhouse and attached combination outbuilding incorporating the functions of shippon and hay barn. Late C17 incorporating elements of earlier builds,with alterations and additions in C18 and C19. Coursed rubble sandstone,with cut stone dressings,quoins,coped gables with moulded kneelers. Ridge, off ridge and side wall stacks to house, 2 of stone, the other rendered. Shallow-pitched roof with stone slate covering. The house is a refronted double-depth gable-entry plan,with a substantial contemporary outbuilding,itself altered and enlarged on several occasions. House front gabled,of 2 storeys with attic,and 3 window bays wide. Central doorway with C18 plain stone surround comprised of single jambs and a shallow lintel, formerly below a triangular hood.Flanking the doorway are stacked 4-light widows with recessed ovolo mullions, all with irregular surrounds. 2-light mullioned window above doorway.Semi-circular headed attic light to centre, immediately below chimney stack Left side elevation with doorway to rear bay and stacked 2-light C18 mullioned windows incorporating re-used ovolo mullions. Attached outbuilding with numerous additions and alterations, but main body of building appears to be of C17 date, with chamfered surrounds to doorways, and longditudinally-braced king-post roof trusses rising from short braced wall-posts set on corbels. South end concealed by house; east side wall with C19 addition in brick to the north of a C17 chamfered doorway within a porch, the lintel of which is a massive stone trough. Further north are C17 vents, a C18 doorway with overlight, blocked C17 doorway with massive lintel and quoin line to north,and full-height double doorway at north end set within porch. West side with 2 C19 double doorways at north end, and with other parts of the elevation breaking forward, a double doorway towards the centre where the roof line is most advanced. Further C18 openings,and a chamfered C17 doorway at the junction with the house. Interior not inspected, but believed to contain features of interest, such as broad plank half-hung doors, breathers to gable walls, triple purlin roof with ridge purlin, and some king post trusses with supplementary struts within the truss.

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SD 84 SE COLNE LANGROYD ROAD

7/92 Langroyd Farmhouse and attached outbuildings 29.1.53

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Farmhouse, barn, shippon and outbuildings under same roof. Early C18. Stone. Stone slate roof, coping and moulded kneelers. 2 storeys with an attic lit from the gable which is the symmetrical show front. Two 4-light stone mullion windows on each floor and one 2-light window similar on 1st floor with rare insurance seal fixed to wall. One single light window in gable with moulded, semicircular head. Plain doorway with triangular stone hood. One gable and one ridge stack, another lateral stack on the Left-hand return. Two chamfered 2-light windows and a doorway, then shippon breaks forward and barn beyond that. An unusual plan and formal facade.

Listing NGR: SD8906041105

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