Description

SADDLEWORTH CASTLESHAW
SD 90 NE
3/34 Wood Farmhouse
and adjoining
- barns
G.V. II
Farmhouse and barns. Mid C18 but largely rebuilt including
an early C19 facade and C19 barns (one of 1896). Ashlar and
hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof.
Double-depth central-entrance plan with 2 storeys and barns
to either side. Symmetrical facade with projecting plinth,
raised quoins, square eaves gutter brackets and gable
chimney stacks. Central door with fanlight, keystone,
archivolt and enriched panel above a moulded hood. 4 ground
floor and 5 first floor windows with square-cut surrounds
and continuous sill bands and C20 casements. The window
above the door has an enriched lintel and cornice. Semi-
circular-headed gable window. 2 and 3-light double-chamfered
cavetto-moulded mullion windows to rear (which has been
largely rebuilt in C20) and gables, some of which are
blocked. Segmental and elliptical-arched cart entries to
barns on each side. Datestone of 1773 is reused from
elsewhere. Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society,
Vol.4, No.3, 1974.

Listing NGR: SD9923709856

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26596146

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)