Description

SE 01 SE TYLAS LANE
Slaithwaite
5/481
No 1
- Birks and Barn

- II

Early C18. Part altered. House, barn and former cottage now barn. Millstone grit/
hammer dressed stone and rubble. Plinth. Pitched stone slate roof. Old ashlar
chimney to east barn with tabling. 1/2 storeys. House: South East elevation:
Ground floor; One 4-light stone mullioned window (double chamfered) (2 mullions
removed). First floor; One 5-light stone mullioned window, (early C19). North
West elevation: Blocked door with large lintel. Pitched one storey extension.
South East barn: single storey (former cottage). South East elevation: Door with
large chamfered lintel (probably original door). Sill has water drainage channels.
One modern barn door. One 4-light stone mullioned window (double chamfered).
South West elevation: Ground and attic levels each have one 2-light stone
mullioned window (ground floor window blocked and part concealed below ground
level). North West elevation: One 6-light stone mullioned window (2 mullions
removed) (2 lights blocked). Interior: The barn is of cruck construction. There
is a single cruck truss with pegged joints. One blade is on a stone footing, the
other is set into the wall. The tie beam has been removed but there is a collar
and two large purlins and ridge beam. At the east gable of the barn is an
impressive chimney with monolithic chamfered lintel and stone quoins. It has
stepped breast. The chimney indicates that the cruck building could have
originally been used for domestic purposes. South West barn: Small door with
large lintel. Barn door with quoins and rounded corbels supporting large lintel.
Lean-to on west side with first floor small windows with tabled sill. There are
several small holes drilled into quoins along the south elevation of the building
for apparatus used in the drying of wool: "Wuzzing".

Listing NGR: SE0586214554

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26557162

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)