Description

NY 87 NW WARK LOW STEAD

10/84 Low Stead farmhouse and
attached farm buildings

GV II

Farmhouse and attached byres. Farmhouse and byre to left are bastle houses,
late C16 or early C17. Windows and doors altered C18 and again mid C19. Byre
to right early C19. Massive random rubble with dressed stone surrounds. Welsh
slate roofs. Walls of bastles 4 ft thick. House 3 irregular bays. Plank door
in middle bay. Windows are diamond-paned iron casements. Upper windows smaller.
Right window is the partly-blocked original upper door to bastle. House walls
raised C18 or C19 by c 2 ft. Left byre, probably early extension to original
bastle, has plank door and ½-slatted window on each floor; upper door reached by
outside stone stair. Byre to right has central door with alternating jambs; and
two ½-slatted windows on 1st floor. Later C18 single-storey extensions to rear.
Gabled roofs with flat copings and kneelers to bastles. 2 stone gable stacks.
Interior has old beams on ground floor.

Listing NGR: NY8154778390

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26651705

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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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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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)