Description

SHOTLEY LOW - QUARTER GREENHEAD
NZ 05 SE

23/255 Farmbuilding range
south-west of
Greenhead Cottages.

GV ll

Farmbuilding range, C18 altered C19. Coursed rubble with cut
dressings; slate roof. East elevation 1 storey, 5 bays, irregular.
Bay 1 stable door, bay 4 boarded double doors under segmental arch
with raised chamfered keystone; bays 2, 3 and 5 boarded doors. Coped
gables with moulded kneelers; small corniced stacks at right end and
2 on ridge.

Right return shows blocked stone-surround door and is linked to ruin
of gatehouse (largely demolished 1964). Vertical-panelled door on
east of ruined part has chamfered stone surround with flat-pointed
head, lintel inscribed HH (Humphrey Hopper) 1751.

James Lough (1798 - 1876) the sculptor is said to have been born in
the room with the '1751' doorway.

Included partly for group value and partly for historical interest,

Listing NGR: NZ0506951737

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26449994

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)