9, 9A, 11 AND 13, FARRER LANE

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SE 32 NE ROTHWELL FARRER LANE LS26 (north side) Oulton

6/82 Nos. 9, 9A, 11, and 13 5th June 1964

GV II

Farmhouse, now 3 dwellings. C16 or earlier, altered in C17 and subsequently. Timber frame cased in sandstone and handmade brick, stone slate roof. U-plan: 3-bay range with added wing to front to 1st bay, 2-gabled extension to the rear, and C18 cottages added as cross-wing at right-hand end. Two storeys; main range of large sandstone blocks, 2 bays, has a worn dripcourse, an inserted doorway at the left end, an 8-light transomed window in the centre, with chamfered flush mullions, a 6-light window above with similar mullions and in the 2nd bays 2 large Tudor-arched lintels, the 1st over a casement window and the 2nd over a blocked doorway, an altered window above (with lintel of former single-light chamfered window); there is a ridge chimney at the junction of the bays, and stone gable copings with kneelers to the right, but the same masonry, including part of the door lintel, continues a short way in 2 lower storeys to the right beyond the line of this gable, with an altered window on each floor. The re-entrant of the left wing, of similar masonry, has large external chimney stack with offsets at eaves level; the gable and return walls of this wing are of handmade brick on a high stone plinth, with a 2-course band carried round; the gable has 2 segmental-headed windows on each floor (glazing altered), and the return has one similar window on each floor, and a doorway with modern timber porch. Further to the rear this wall has the gabled end of the main range, with a cut-down external chimney stack, a modern window on each floor, and king-post framed gable (with restored V-struts). The rear has 2 gables with similar but original framing, tie-beams or bressumers carried externally on concave- braced ends of wallplates; otherwise, a doorway at ground floor and one horizontal sliding sash on each floor, of each part.

Interior: Nos. 9 and 9A (now one dwelling, forming the left end) incorporate the close-studded former external wall of the main range; a closed truss with similar studding; and in one of the rear gables another truss with 2 massive raked struts; in the wing, a corner wallpost and wallplate, and a Tudor-arched stone fireplace; a similar fireplace in the main range of this part; interior of hall range (No. 11) has timber post, and at 1st floor some C17 muntin-and-rail panelling, but is otherwise altered.

Listing NGR: SE3629228074

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