Description

SD 92SW TODMORDEN (former M.B.) STONES LANE
SD 926235

5/290 Stones Farmhouse and
attached barn

G.V. II

House and barn attached (at right angles) dated 1743 with added house early C19.
Large hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. ½ of barn roof asbestos. House
2 storeys. South front has quoins, weathered plinth, chamfered doorway with
monolithic jambs; over is 1st floor taking-in door. Double chamfered mullioned
window of 2 wide lights with same over. Window with plain stone surrounds with
2-light chamfered window over. At right angles barn has semi-circular cart
entry with finely engraved keystone bearing date and initials W.G., (for William
Greenwood) plinth and 2 rectangular chamfered ventilators to mistal at ground
floor level, massive quoins to angle and return wall. Set within barn arch is
portal with semi-circular arch headed doorways with chamfered surround. That to
left to stable (taken out of 2nd cell of house), that to right to mistal.
Similar detail to east front of barn. Interior of barn has 2 fine stone pointed
arches with pointed heads and chamfered surround to either side of central
threshing hearth. To northern end queen strut truss on heavily jowled post on
stylobat, southern end formerly similar now replaced by iron truss. Attached
and breaking forward from barn is the farmhouse (occupied) to the east, 2
storeys. 2 cells. Porch formed of large stones has low gable with decorative
barge boards. To either side broad flat faced mullioned windows with projecting
sills of 4 lights with 2-light sash windows over. Coped gables with 3 tall
dressed stacks.

Listing NGR: SD9260823600

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26524610

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)