Description

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SX 08 SW Lower Hendra Farmhouse
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GV II

Farmhouse. C18 (sundial dated 1751), extended in C20. Local slate rubble with
granite quoins and window and doorway dressings. Slate hipped roof with black
glazed ridge tiles. Dressed granite side stacks, the right hand stack is rendered.

Plan: Double depth rectangular plan with 2 principal front rooms and a central
entrance. The back rooms are probably shallower service rooms. In the C20 a
shallow 2-storey extension was built at the back to the right.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window south front. All the windows and the
doorway have dressed granite flat arches with keystones and the windows have slate
sills. The 3 first floor windows are circa early C20 4-pane sashes, the 2 ground
floor windows are late C20 casements and the central doorway has a late C20 boarded
door. Slate sundial on front wall to right of doorway is dated 1751 and has
initials C.W. and coat of arms, Roman numerals and angels in the corner.

At the back there is a C20 2-storey flat-roof extension with rendered walls.

Interior not accessible.

Listing NGR: SX0294781305

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26452089

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)