Description

ST 56 NW BARROW GURNEY C.P. FREEMAN'S LANE (north side)

3/22 Freeman's Farmhouse and attached
Garden Walls and Gatepiers
11.lO.51
II

Farmhouse. C17 core with C18 and C19 alterations: Rendered rubble with ashlar
dressings, stacks and double Roman tile roof. 2 storeys and attic, 6-window
principal north front refaced in late C19. Windows are C19 cross wooden mullions
with small pane casements to ground and 1st floors, 3 gabled dormers to attic.
Central Wren style late C19 doorcase with broken pediment and ball finial. C19
plank door. 1st floor string course and above, the wall face to upper floor has
pargetting in render with central coat of arms and coved cornice. Double span
roof, end stacks and one centre ridge stack. Interior. Some C17 chamfered
beams; ground floor left hand room to the north has c.1740 style chimneypiece and
overmantel in carved wood probably inserted in the late C19; open well staircase
with moulded handrail and turned balusters. Garden walls to the north returned
to the house of squared and coursed rubble. 2.5 metres high to the side, lower
at north boundary of formal garden. Ashlar gatepiers with 1 left hand urn with
tapered cap finial, the other dislodged; further. ball finials at wall corners.
All garden features comprise a late C19 formal layout.

Listing NGR: ST5182066917

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26598385

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings