Description

BALDERSTONE
SD 63 SW
4/4 Sykes Holt Farmhouse
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- II

House, c.1600 with C19 additions. Sandstone rubble with slate roof. 2
storeys. Earliest part gabled, projecting forwards with one-bay additions
to each side. Probably the surviving cross-wing of an earlier house.
Additions have modern windows with plain reveals and projecting sills.
Front wall of gabled wing has ovolo-moulded and chamfered mullioned
windows with hoods, offset to the right of centre. The ground-floor one is
of 5 lights (partly restored) and the 1st floor one of 4 lights. Under the
apex there is a small opening with plain reveals. Coped gable with
kneelers. Present door, in left-hand return wall of wing, has plain stone
surround. Chimneys on gable of right-hand addition and on ridge of wing.
Inside, the front room of the early wing has 2 chamfered main joists. The
owner reported finding unexplained timbers in the right-hand wall of the
wing, possibly remains of an earlier building.

Listing NGR: SD6360731509

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26327481

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)