Description

STAINFORTH SHERWOOD BROW
SD 86 NW
2/30 Sherwood House Farmhouse
20.2.58
GV II
Farmhouse. Dated 1703 with late C18 alterations. Slobbered rubble, stone dressings.
Stone slate roof. Direct entry plan. 2 storeys 4 bays. Late C18 entrance in third
bay has plain surround or milled stone and gabled slate hood; 4 panel door. To
right is ground floor 3-light window with flat faced recessed mullions; above is
a dated former doorhead with initials RAT (Robert Anthony Twistleton of Winskill)
within a triangular panel which marks the position of the early C18 entrance. On
the extreme left are two 2-light double chamfered mullioned windows with a
continuous dripmould which rises over the 1703 datestones. Four similar 2-light
windows on upper floor. All have C20 casements. Central ridge stack, and left
hand gable end ridge stack. Right-hand gable end ridge stack projects and rests
on two stone slate corbels. Interior: massive inglenook fireplace (now blocked)
with 14 joggled voussoirs and decorated keystone inscribed 1 30.
Source: North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group report 546.

Listing NGR: SD8136968667

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26588404

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)