Description

MICKLETON HIGH GREEN
NY 9723
28/127 High Green Farmhouse
and outbuilding
extension
GV lI
Substantial farmhouse with extension to left (formerly stable with loft, now
storage). Dated 1752 on doorway. Squared sandstone rubble; stone-flagged roof;
stone chimney stacks. Double-pile plan.

Main garden front: 2 storeys, 5 bays with 2-storey, 2-bay extension to left.
House has raised-and-chamfered quoins to right and at junction. Central 6-panel
door and 4-pane overlight in pedimented doorcase with frieze inscribed: John
and Mary Dent 1752. Windows, in moulded surrounds with projecting chamfered
sills, are mainly 12-pane sashes; replaced 4-pane sashes to left of doorway.
Extension has replaced boarded door in flush surround to right and a stone
stairway leading to boarded door at left. Continuous roof with coped gables and
shaped kneelers. Stepped-and-corniced right end and ridge stacks; identical
stack above junction.

Several throughstones on left return of extension.

Rear faces main road. House has low plinth and scattered openings. 6 steps to
6-panel door in architrave at left. 16-pane sashes in moulded surrounds in end
bays. First-floor, 12-pane stair window, with radial head, to right of doorway,
in moulded round-arched surround. Extension has boarded door in re-set flush
surround with replaced 4-pane casement to left; pigeon opening, with ledge,
below eaves. Similar roof details.

Interior: cut-string dogleg staircase, of 2 flights plus landing rail, has
ramped moulded handrail; knopped turned balusters on upper flight. Kitchen has
elaborate Delft rack with fluted pilasters. Several 4-panel doors and internal
window shutters.

Listing NGR: NY9744323558

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26622891

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover