Raby Fold Farmhouse and Cottage

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WRIGHTINGTON MOSSY LEA ROAD SD 51 SW

1283-0/5/10000 Raby Fold Farmhouse and Cottage

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Farmhouse and cottage. Probably later C17, altered in C18 or C19. Sandstone rubble, mostly coursed, with quoins; slate roofs. Modified T-plan formed by a 2-unit baffle-entry main range on an east-west axis, with a small porch-wing in front of the south- east corner and a rear wing which includes a secondary C17 one- unit dwelling (the cottage), with a small extension to the end of this; various alterations (at the junction in particular) making interpretation of the historical relationship between these three elements uncertain. Two storeys with attics to both parts, a 2-window main range facing south with the present entrance front in the east side. The south facade has a chamfered plinth and large irregular quoins; two 4-light windows on each floor, all with recessed cavetto mullions, those at ground floor with a continuous hoodmould, all except the upper right with saddle-bars and those to the right at ground floor and to the left at 1st floor with 8 leaded panes in each light; and the right-hand jambs of those to the right abutted by the rear wall of the wing, which on this side is of random rubble not keyed-in and appears to have been added. Re-built gable chimney to the right, and a tall chimney at the left corner. The left return wall (including a rear outshut which appears to be a remodelling of a formerly gabled wing) has a plain plinth; two 2-light windows on each floor, mostly with simple slab hoodmoulds, the lower right blocked with rubble, the upper left with the left light rendered and broken at the left corner by the slope of the outshut roof, and the other 2 lacking the mullions; and a rendered gable showing the outline of a blocked 3-light attic window. The right-hand return wall, including the small wing, is of continuously coursed rubble (except the gable of the main range, recently rebuilt), with a high chamfered plinth, a slightly Tudor-arched doorway at the left end with chamfered surround and a c ambered lintel heavily weathered but with remains of a date "..93"; and an inserted doorway and 2 inserted windows in the rebuilt gable. The corner of the rear wall has a 2-light mullioned firewindow. The rear wing, in 2 builds of unequal length, has a 2-light mullioned window with a hoodmould at ground floor of the shorter 1st portion, then a vertical joint to the cottage which has quoins to both this and the outer corner, an inserted doorway to the left, one 3-light sliding sashed window on each floor, eaves raised by 3 courses, and a rebuilt gable chimney; its gable wall has a small single-storey extension, and a very small square window offset to the right at 1st floor; and its west side has a blocked 3-light window with chamfered brick mullions, and an inserted or altered doorway to the left with a batten-and-board door inside out and opening outwards (probably formerly protected by a lean-to). INTERIOR: many C17 features including: timber-framed partition and rear walls to the main range; fine-round moulded beams with tongue- stops, and an inglenook in the housepart with bressummer matching these; cross-corner chimneys in the parlour and the chamber above it (the latter with a small C18 or early C19 grate); batten-and- board doors on both floors, all with fleur-de-lys strap hinges; and in the rear cottage another inglenook with moulded bressummer, a large lateral chamfered beam, and a spiral-newel staircase in the corner to the left of the inglenook, continued up to attic level.

Listing NGR: SD5328813025

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