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Description: Lower Hanging Shaw

Address: Lower Hanging Shaw Farm Sourhall Road Sourhall Todmorden OL14 7HW

Grade: II

Group detail: Sourhall Road (off)

Full description:
Laithe house. Late C18 with added 2 bays on to barn and single cell onto house c1840. Watershot masonry, stone slate roof. Double-pile on plan under single span roof. House has flat faced mullioned windows of 4 lights to each floor (lacking 2 mullions), quoins. Original gable entry with composite jambs and chamfered surround obscured by later extension which has doorway with monolithic jambs and 2-light broad flat faced mullioned window with same over. 2 stacks to ridge. To left hand end is barn with semi-circular arched cart entry set betwen buttresses c1955, (stone from cellar at Higher Hanging Shaw). Interior of barn has 2 tall stone pointed arches and reused beam with 2 half lap joints. This house appears on a plan of 1808. A full set of deeds exists, the first dated 1585, possibly for a cruck framed structure.