Description

NY 84 NW NY 800492 WEST ALLEN TURNEY SHIELD

21/247 Low Turney Shield
11.9.75 Farmhouse and adjacent
outbuildings
II

Farmhouse and outbuilding. Late C17 or early C18, perhaps incorporating
earlier fabric, restored 1976. Rubble with stone slate roof. House 2 storeys,
3 bays. Central boarded door; renewed 9-pane window to left and 4-pane fixed
window to right. 1st floor has small blocked window above door, small 4-pane
fixed windows to right and left. Stone end stacks. Outbuilding to left 1
storey, 2 wide bays; boarded door and stable door. Right return shows corbels
for earlier stack. Rear elevation; house outshut has 3 small windows, and in
right return a C17 chamfered doorway brought from ruin at NY 799481. Outbuilding
to right has chamfered doorway with massive jambs flanked by small windows;
wall rebuilt 1976 but old features re-set. Interior: prior to 1976 house roof
had 2 upper cruck trusses with ogival blades. New roof structure is a copy but
with straight blades.

Listing NGR: NY7998949164

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26589922

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