Listing Text

SE13NW BAILDON THOMPSON LANE
SE143385 Baildon Green
(north side)

6/42 Midgley Farmhouse
15.12.75 and Nos 1 and 3
Midgley Farm Cottages
(formerly listed as
GV Midgley Farmhouse with
Cottages Nos. 1 and 3 and
II Barns)
House and 2 cottages, now 3 dwellings. Late C17 house with mid-C18
additions to both ends. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof.
2 storeys with single-storey outshut to rear to house which has 2-cell
direct entry plan. Six 1st-floor windows in all. Reads from left:
former dairy, added to house, has doorway with sill-tie to left of
3-light flat-faced mullioned window to left of blocked taking-in-door.
House has quoins, double-chamfered mullioned windows, all lacking some
mullions, of 4 lights with 3-light above, 5 lights with 4-light above,
added porch with weathered plinth, original studded oak plank door and
inner doorway with stop-chamfered surround; 2-light window. Gable stacks.
No 3 has doorway with monolithic jambs and 2-light flat-faced mullioned
window with 3-light window above. No 1 has doorway with tie-stone jambs
and 2-light flat-faced mullioned window with 3-light window above. No 1
has doorway with tie-stone jambs and to either side a 2-light window with
two (4-light windows above. Coped gable with kneelers and stack to right,
one other stack to ridge.

Interior: arcade-plate has groove to its soffit indicating the former
existence of a timber division wall between rear service rooms. The
taking-in-door possibly indicates the former practice here of textile
manufacture.
RCHM (England) report.

Listing NGR: SE1436138565