Description

SD 61 NW HEATH CHARNOCK off LONG LANE

6/140 Holland Fold Farmhouse and 17.4.1967 attached barn (Formerly listed as Holland Fold - II Farmhouse with adjoining barn)

Farmhouse, dated 1680 (internally). Coursed sandstone rubble with large quoins, stone slate roof with brick chimney on ridge, another chimney at corner of outshut (blocked with stone ball). Two-bay baffle-entry house with outshut to rear of 2nd bay and barn under same roof at left end. Two storeys and attic; gabled porch in centre has round-headed arch with voussoirs continued down as jamb stones, small 2-light stone mullioned window over arch; to left, one stone mullioned window on each floor (5 and 4 lights); to right, a 3-light stone mullioned window with straight dripstone, a 2-light cross-glazed casement above, and a single light window above the porch. Right return wall has stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds: 5 and 3 lights at ground floor, 4 and 2 lights at 1st floor, and 3 lights to attic. Rear has lean-to additions at ground floor, a 2-light sliding sash above. Barn at left end is partitioned from house by timber-framed wall with wattle-and-daub infil; has wagon doorway in rear (east) wall, that in front wall now blocked and replaced by simple doorway. Interior: housepart in 2nd bay has inglenook fireplace with stone hecks, and carved salt cupboard lettered in relief: H parlour in 1st bay has slightly arched stone cross-corner T : : I ; 1680 fireplace; both have stop-moulded beams. Unusually complete survival of late C17 farmhouse.

Listing NGR: SD6029915691

External Links

• Wikidata Q26644067

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas