Description

SEDBERGH

SD6591 BIRKS LANE
162-1/20/274 (North side)
14/06/84 Barn and cottage attached to west
end of High Birks Farmhouse
(Formerly Listed as:
BIRKS LANE
High Birks Farmhouse and Barn
attached to west)

GV II

Bank barn and cottage. Probably earlier C19, in one build;
altered. Mixed random rubble with quoins (the cottage
white-washed), stone slate roof on 2 levels. Linear plan on
east-west axis, the barn of 4 structural bays and the cottage
of one bay at its right-hand end, attached to west gable of
High Birks Farmhouse.
EXTERIOR: the barn is 2 very unequal storeys, with a low
shippon forming the ground floor to the front and the much
taller upper floor approached from higher ground to the rear.
It has 4 doorways to the shippon with a small window at the
right-hand end: at the left end, a doorway with a stone lintel
and a slate-course run out to the right, offset left of centre
another doorway with a stone lintel, and offset right of
centre a pair of doorways with rubble voussoirs, to the right
of which is a small square window with a stone lintel. Above
the 2nd doorway is a loading door. The rear has a wagon
doorway with a pair of C19 harr-hung doors. The interior has
original boskins in the shippon, and 3 C19 roof trusses in the
barn.
The attached cottage, 2 low storeys and one window, has a
doorway adjoining the junction with the barn, and one 6-pane
sashed window on each floor to the right.
INTERIOR not inspected. Forms group with High Birks Farmhouse
(qv).

Listing NGR: SD6511091454

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663915

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)