Toils Farmhouse and Attached Barn
TOILS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, OTLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133337
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Toils Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address:
- TOILS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, OTLEY ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00912/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133337
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Toils Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOILS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, OTLEY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TOILS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, OTLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Bingley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 12632 41573
Details
SE14SW BINGLEY OTLEY ROAD SE126416 (west side of)Lane Head
2/106 Toils Farmhouse and attached barn
II
Wrongly marked Middle Farm on O. S. maps. Laithe-house. c1770. Hammer-dressed stone, dressed quoins, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 5-bay barn to left of 2-cell central baffle-entry house. House: doorway with monolithic jambs has cyma-moulded surround which rises to form false ogee lintel; single-light window above has similar surround with false-arched lintel. To either side on both floors a 3-light flat-faced mullioned window with recessed mullions with inner chamfer and chamfered surround. Central stack offset from ridge. Barn: segmental-arched cart entry with skewbacks and composite jambs. To left, mistal doorway with monolithic jambs and chamfered surround. Coped gable with kneelers to left. Left bay now part of house. Extension to house, to right, in keeping re-uses original coping and kneelers.
Interior: housebody has fireplace with monolithic jambs and segmental- arched bressumer with incised voussoirs, stop-chamfered spine beams and floor joists with ogee stops. Parlour has similar beamed ceiling. It is recorded that John Wesley stayed here on several visits to the area between preaching in Bingley and Ilkley in 1776. Formerly the window had an engraved piece of glass with a portrait of Wesley and an elegy to death dated 1776. This glass is now preserved in Eldwick Methodist church.
An outbuilding has re-used datestone c1777 the house may be of similar date.
Listing NGR: SE1263241573
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338012
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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