Description

SD 73 SE
3/62

SIMONSTONE,
SIMONSTONE LANE
Eveson's Farmhouse and Eveson's Farm Cottage

(Formerly listed as Evison's Tenement)

17.12.1968

GV II

Farmhouse, late C16 or early C17, altered, now 2 dwellings. Limewashed
sandstone rubble with quoins (gables rendered), stone slate roof with a ridge
chimney at the junction of the 2nd and 3rd bays, a large external chimney
stack at the left gable. Three-bay baffle-entry plan with projecting stair
turret to 3rd bay, large rear outshut to the left half and smaller lean-to to
3rd bay. Two storeys; original doorway to left of stair turret altered as a
2-light window (a similar inserted window above this), an inserted doorway to
the left of this, and another doorway to the right of the stair turret; to the
left two 4-light windows with recessed ovolo and fillet moulded mullions and
moulded hoodmoulds, at 1st floor above these 2 similar 3-light windows without
hoodmoulds, and in the stair turret a matching 2-light window. Left gable has
2-light window with chamfered mullion; right gable has 3 and 2-light windows
at ground floor, and at 1st floor a 4-light window with hoodmould. Rear:
outshut has 3 other mullioned windows variously altered. Interior: house part
in 2nd bay has large inglenook bressumer, the front end housed in a heck-beam,
both with cyma-stopped chamfer; similarly chamfered ceiling joists; C18
rectangular stone fireplace with shouldered jambs (head altered); stair turret
to 3rd bay contains stone spiral staircase.

Listing NGR: SD7752734154

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26531968

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Recommended Books

• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6