Description

NZ 0814 ROKEBY MORTHAM

13/142 Farmbuildings to
east of Mortham
Tower and
attached walls

GV II

Planned foldyard group of farmbuildings, probably late C18. Coursed rubble
with cut quoins and tooled-and-margined dressings; graduated stone slate
roofs. Ranges around yard open to east. Single-storey side ranges each
have central elliptical arch flanked by 3-bay round arcades; all arches
keyed, some blocked; also boarded doors and small windows. East ends show
boarded double doors under timber lintels; hip-ended roofs. 2 elliptical
arches and slit vents to rear of north range. West range has 2-storey barn
in centre; central boarded door re-using lintel of 2-light mullioned window,
2 tiers of slit vents, pitching door to left. Single-storey flanking parts
have boarded doors and blocked openings. Rear elevation of barn shows central
elliptical arch,with white brick voussoirs,under boarded pitching door; and
part-slatted loft window.

Walls, with flat slab coping and roughly-shaped monolith gate piers, on east
of yard and forming enclosures within yard.

Listing NGR: NZ0870114173

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26596794

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)