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Description: Birkdale Farmhouse

Address: Birkdale Farmhouse 3 Birkhouse Road Bailiff Bridge Brighouse West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Birkhouse Road, (south side) Birkhouse

Full description:
House and 2 cottages now one. Mid C17. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. Main house of 2 storeys. 4-bay front. Quoins, continuous string course. Doorway with composite jambs and 4-centred arched lintel to right hand 4th bay. One other doorway to 2nd bay with monolithic jambs, C19. 1st and 3rd bays have windows, 1st now reduced in size in C19. 3rd bay has double chamfered mullioned and transomed window of 8 lights with hollow chamfers. First floor has double chamfered mullioned windows of 2, 4 and 5 lights (the latter with 2 mullions removed). Large central stack to ridge. Built onto left hand end is 2-storey cottage now garage with rendered walls. Right hand end has single storey cottage. Left hand return wall has 4-light double chamfered mullioned window. Rear, back to earth single storey, has single light, 2-light and 4-light double chamfered mullioned windows, the latter with masons marks on jamb. Interior of housebody has 4-centered arched fireplace.