Description

LANEAST
SX 28 NW
2/144 Torr Park Farmhouse with attached
- front garden wall and outhouse
with shippon

II

Farmhouse, with attached front garden wall and outhouse with shippon. Circa early
C19; some alterations and additions of later C19 and few later alterations.
Slatestone rubble with stone dressings; partly slate-hung. 2-span rag slate roof
with ridge tiles and gable ends. The front range has gable end stacks with slate
weathering. No stacks to the rear range.
Plan: Double depth plan with central entrance and principal room to right and left
at the front, one room originally a kitchen and the other a parlour. Shallower rear
unheated service rooms. Attached to rear left is a single storey outhouse of C19 and
a shippon addition of C19 at the left. The attached wall encloses a small garden at
the front of the house.
Exterior: 2 storeys, symmetrical 3-window front. Ground floor has central porch
with hipped roof, plank door at the left side and small single C20 casement at the
front. All windows are of early C20 in original apertures. Ground floor has 2-light
2-pane casement to left and 2-light single pane casement to right, with cambered
stone arches. First floor has three 2-light 2-pane casements. The right end is
blind, slate-hung with rag slates. The left end has the shippon addition of single
storey with loft over; the gable end is open, with a central granite pier, the bay to
left and the upper part of the gable weather boarded, with a central plank door in
the gable; asbestos slate roof. At the rear, at ground and first floor to left one
2-light 2-pane casement, ground and first floor to right a 2-light single pane
casement, all of early C20; the ground floor openings have flat stone arches.
Central plank door with glazed panel, cambered stone arch and pitched slate hood.
There is a single unheated outhouse attached to right with C20 2-light single pane
casement and stable type plank door; hipped end roof. The front garden wall is in
slatestone rubble with quartz rubble capping. There are plain piers at the left side
with a C20 wooden gate. The wall encloses a garden about 15 metres wide and about 3
metres deep.
Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX2313386423

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26435544

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