Description

ELLAND SCHOLES LANE SE 088218 Scholes Farmhouse and 1/98 Scholes Farm Cottages (Nos 1 and 2)

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Farmhouse, now divided into 3 livings, initialled and dated 'AR 1694'. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. Three room plan with back-wing and cross-wing at end, continuous outshot or aisle to rear. Coped gable with kneelers, cross-wing without. 2 storeys. Front reads from left: depressed arched headed doorway and 2 windows with plain reveals. Central enclosed porch with gable and kneelers and depressed arched doorway with chamfered jambs and date stone. Over the porch 3-light double chamfered mullioned window. To either side are double chamfered mullioned windows of many lights each with central king mullion. 8 lights to ground with 6 lights above. That to left has been broken into to form a door and has only 2 extant mullions. Upper floor window has lost outer mullions. Gable of cross-wing has C19 2-light window with 5-light doable chamfered mullioned window above lacking outer mullions. Hearth- passage plan and one other stack to ridge. There are decorative cast-iron gutter brackets to eaves. Rear has 6-light double chamfered mullioned window (2 mullions removed) to aisle under cat-slide roof of single storey. Rear gables of back-wing and cross-wing have double chamfered mullioned windows of several lights, some mullions removed. Gable of back-wing is coped with kneelers.

Listing NGR: SE0876821935

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