Description

LOFTUS SOUTH TOWN LANE
NZ 71 NW
(off west side), Loftus.
1/69 Nos. 1 and 2 Handale Abbey
Cottages. (Formerly
listed as Handale
20.1.67 Farmhouse).
- II
Farmhouse and farm cottage adjoining left, early/mid C18, with outhouses
adjoining left and right ends c.1800. Now 2 cottages; dressed sandstone,
coursed rubble with quoins to outhouse at left; brick outhouse at right.
Clay pantile roofs with stone ridge and gable copings and block kneelers.
Stacks rebuilt in brick with stone caps. 2 storeys, 2 plus 2 windows.
Original doorway, between farmhouse and cottage, now holds late C20 door.
Mid/late C19 doorway with late C20 door between bays in farmhouse. Late C20
casements in original openings. Late C19 opening with sash inserted above
original doorway. Stone sills, keyed lintels on first floor of farmhouse.
Steeply-pitched roof, sprocketed at eaves. Ridge and end stacks.
Single-storey outhouses. Garret lights in returns of farmhouse and cottage.
Mid C20 lean-to rear wing and c.1900 brick outbuilding adjoining right-hand
outhouse are not of special interest. Farm outbuildings to south are too
much altered to be of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ7269915704

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26430031

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Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)