Description

The following building shall be added:-

CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH
SD 49 SW
1258-/1/10001 Farm outbuilding east of
High Birks Farmhouse
GV II

Farm outbuilding. Dated 1695, with C19 alterations and additions. Watershot Lakeland
stone rubble walling with limestone quoins, some monolithic, and limestone dressings,
coped gables with kneelers and finial, and a Westmorland slate roof laid to diminishing
courses. Bank barn plan, linear in form, with waggon access from high ground to rear,
and cattle standings to ground floor to front. South elevation; 2 storey with overloft, 5
bays with long lean-to at west end and lower in-line gabled addition at east end. Shallow
canopy to ground floor supported on timber corbels and plate shelters cowhouse entries
and feed passage doorways. Massive stepped plinth interrupted by 5 plain doorways with
whitewashed surrounds. 2 doors have ventilation slits, 2 are subdivided horizontally and
one is now a window. There are 2 small window openings with glazing and louvres.
There is an inscribed circular slate in the wall below the canopy at the west end which
reads 'W.S.1695'. Above the doorway, 2 courses of projecting throughstones, and to the
centre, a former winnowing doorway, now enlarged and glazed, below a slated canopy.
North elevation of single storey height, with full-height double doorway and boarded
doors below curved timber lintol and enclosed within shallow slated canopy. Lean-to to
west with double doorway below timber lintol. South wall to lean-to appears near
contemporary, and has doorways at different levels. Interior not fully inspected but
observed to have a boarded threshing/loft floor and strutted roof trusses supporting a
double purlin roof. One of the earliest known examples of what is held to be an C18
building type.

Listing NGR: SD4280290578

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26432939

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)