Description

NZ 11 NE PIERCEBRIDGE A67(Gainford Road)
(North side, off)
4/145 White Cross Farmhouse
6/6/52 (Formerly listed as White
Cross Farmhouse with two
GV detached Lodges)
II
Farmhouse. Probably late C18 with early-mid C19 alterations and additions.
Squared rubble painted white. Pantiled roof with stone-flagged eaves. Brick
chimmey stacks. Wings added at right-angles to front and rear of original
farmhouse to produce cross plan.
2-storey, symmetrical garden front of 3 wide bays. Plinth, ground-floor sill
band, first-floor and eaves bands, flush quoins. Replaced door on short right
return of projecting centre bay. 3-light windows in projecting flat-faced
surrounds with chamfered stone mullions: windows with 4-pane sashes and lowered
sills on ground floor; shorter windows with 2-pane sashes above. Low-pitched
hipped roof also hipped over centre bay. Central ridge stack with stone top
band. Similar lateral stacks on rear walls of wings.
Rear: Far-projecting centre bay; single-storey outshut with pent roof on left;
short range of sheds with boarded doors and pent roof on right.

Listing NGR: NZ1982016258

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26431974

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990