Description

SJ 99 NE
4/43
1.11.66

LONGDENDALE
BACK LANE
(west side)
No. 2 (Old Post
Office Farm)

G.V.
II

Includes left hand bay only of No. 50 MARKET STREET (west
side) which was formerly part of the same house. House,
"NWM 1694" (Nicholas and Martha Wagstaffe) on door lintel.
Squared coursed rubble with graduated stone slate roof and
brick stack. 2-bay baffle-entry plan with 2 storeys, a 2-
story porch,one room in depth and a slightly later wing
added to rear. Stone plinth and quoins. Symmetrical facade
with 5-light house-part window (with 3 mullions removed) and
three 3-light windows (one with mullions removed) all with
double-chamfered stone mullions. The central porch has an
off-centre chamfered door surround, a round-headed first
floor light, an owl hole and dove holes, and coped gable
with kneelers and ball finials. Central ridge chimney
stack. Rear has 2 windows with mullion removed. Round-
headed attic gable light. Interior has a wattle and daub
timber-framed partition on 2 floors.

Listing NGR: SJ9930695582

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26320821

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings