Description

BISHOPDALE B 6160
SD 98 SE
(north-west side, off)
5/1 Longridge Farmhouse and
outbuilding
25.3.69
GV II*

Marked as Long Ridge on 6" Ordnance Survey map. Farmhouse and outbuilding,
now garage. House 1653, possibly with earlier origins. For George and
Elizabeth Dodsworth. Rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 1:1:1 bays with
central 2-storey projecting gabled porch and rear 2-storey outshut. Porch:
old board door in quoined surround with moulded arris and triangular head
within square chamfer, and above it inscription "GED 1653". String course,
continuing along right return of porch; first-floor 2-light double-chamfered
mullion window with hoodmould. Right return of porch: on each floor a
chamfered round-headed single-light window. Inside porch: C20 part-glazed
door in surround with moulded arris and triangular head within square
chamfer, and on sunken spandrels ill-cut letters "C G" and "E" and above
"1653". On ground floor of house, from left: chamfered round-headed fire
window; 6-light double-chamfered mullion window with central king mullion
and hoodmould; to right of porch, 5-light double-chamfered mullion window
with continuous dripmould. First floor: 4-light double-chamfered mullion
windows. Stacks at ends and to right of porch. House seems to have
continued 1 bay to left, now garage on ground floor with loft above. Right
jamb of garage opening from a chamfered quoined doorway. The string, now
broken may have continued from the house. Interior: to left, in houseplace,
large moulded beams and joist and chamfered, voussoired, segmental pointed-
arched fireplace with salt box and beehive oven in rear wall, and to its
right a chamfered round-arched doorway; in rear wall a chamfered straight-
headed doorway to kitchen, which may be older; all 3 openings having stop-
chamfered bases at same level; king mullion of window chamfered off at lower
edge; in wall on right a chamfered triangular-headed doorway into parlour
which has a chamfered triangular-headed fireplace and formerly a plaster
frieze. In garage, part of blocked mullion window in rear wall, and to
right, corbels formerly for first-floor beams.

Listing NGR: SD9604583190

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Longridge Farmhouse And Outbuilding at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17539074

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)