Lower Tippett Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SD 82 SW RAWTENSTALL (off) COWPE ROAD

6/180 Lower Tippett Farmhouse and attached barn

- II

Two farmhouses and attached barn forming a single range of building, in 3 builds probably later C18; now in course of renovation as 3 dwellings.

Watershot coursed sandstone blocks, slate and stone slate roof (barn roofless at time of survey). Houses single pile, 2 bays + 2 bays, with added kitchen to front of house on left, and vaulted well house to rear. Two storeys; single storey gabled kitchen with chimney at gable has plain doorway at the junction, one window in this side and one in the end wall, and cellar below; this house has a stepped triple-light window at first floor left and 3 other windows. House in centre of range has central plain doorway (lintel raised), a 4-light slab mullioned window to the left, a stepped triple-light window on each floor to the right, and 2 other windows at 1st floor. Vertical joint to barn on right, which is now a shell with round-arched wagon entrance in centre, small square openings each side, and plain doorways each end. Rear of the range was originally back-to-earth, has been excavated and rebuilt, but formerly underground vaulted well-house survives. Interior: entirely rebuilt except cellar and wellhouse, which has stone slab shelves etc., the wellhouse also a stone cistern for spring water.

Listing NGR: SD8336220968

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1078 IOE Records taken by Peter Hyde; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Peter Hyde. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project