Description

COTHERSTONE BALDERSDALE
NY 91 NW
14/38 Mere Beck Farmhouse,
byre and pigsty
II
Farmhouse, byre and pigsty. Farmhouse dated 1742 on door lintel; early-mid C19
farmbuildings. Squared rubble. Farmhouse and pigsty have stone-flagged roofs;
byre has blue slate roof; stone chimney stacks. Farmhouse, with rear outshut,
has byre and pigsty attached to right.

2-storey, irregular 3-bay farmhouse with tall plinth and flush quoins. Central
replaced partly-glazed door, in flush surround with thin alternating jambs, has
lintel inscribed: 17 IP 42. Blank bay above door. Flanking 16-pane sashes
with flush sills and lintels. Roof has corniced end stacks with water tables.

Set-back 2-storey, narrow 2-bay byre with loft. Boarded door with square window
opening to left and C20 8-pane fixed light above. Single-storey, 2-bay pigsty,
attached to_right, has 2 boarded doors and a feeding chute to right. Monopitch
roof to lower rear wall.

Rear of right return of byre has external stone stairway leading to first-floor
boarded door.

Derelict, detached buildings, to left of farmhouse, are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NY9487418146

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26608809

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)