Description

STOKE CLIMSLAND LIDWELL
SX 37 SE
8/157 Lower Lidwell Farmhouse
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GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C17 incorporating parts of an earlier building;
later additions and alterations. Roughly coursed slate-stone with granite
quoins; slate roofs, artificial to front of main range. Complex plan with
various additions to C18 core. 2 storeys. 3-window front to main range;
tripartite glazing bar sashes to left and right on first floor (latter horned)
with blind opening to centre. Ground floor has tripartite sash to left and
5-light C19 casement to right of central 4-panel door, all openings with
wedged voussoirs to segmental heads. Internal end stack with red brick shaft
to right and external end stack with red brick top to left. Slightly set-back
early C19 addition to right with horned glazing bar sash to left and paired
plate-glass sashes to right on first floor had boarded double door to centre
on ground floor, all openings with wedged heads like those on ground floor
of main range. This early C19 range seems to truncate an apparently earlier
gabled range (dairy) running at right-angles to rear. Back wall of main
range has open lean-to with monolithic granite columns over segmental-pointed
chamfered doorway. 2-storey addition to right. Outbuilding attached to left
gable end of main range has quartzite blocks to back wall.
Interior: Right ground-floor room of main range has large open fireplace
with massive granite lintel. Staircase has some C18 balusters to first floor
(possibly not in situ) with turned decoration to middle. Slate shelves to
dairy and collar truss roof to outbuilding attached to left gable end of
main range.

Listing NGR: SX3800174377

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514967

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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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]