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Listed Building record MDR2728 - Brook Farm Farmhouse, Foxholes Lane, Kniveton

Type and Period (1)

  • (Elizabethan to 21st Century - 1600 AD? to 2050 AD)

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Full Description

Brook Farm farmhouse, Foxholes Lane, Kniveton, a 17th and 18th century building. 'Brook Farmhouse has 1 internal cruck frame, with straight blades arched tiebeam, collar and spurs (removed).' (1, 2) From the National Heritage List for England: 'SK 25 SW 2/68 PARISH OF KNIVETON FOXHOLES LANE (West Side) Brook Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. C17 and C18. Coursed rubble limestone with gritstone dressings. Plain tile roof with brick gable end stacks and a central stack. East elevation with off-centre doorway with C20 half glazed door. Window to the right with small panes. To the left a window opening with C18 stone surround and chamfered sill. Later glazing bar casements. Similar window to the left and two similar windows above but without chamfered sills. West elevation with a blocked single light stair window with chamfered surround, a 3-light chamfered mullion window to the right and to the right again a single light window with chamfered surround. C20 lean-to to the left. According to F.Marston writing in the Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 1967, there is "one internal cruck frame with straight blades, arched tiebeam, collar and spurs (removed)". Interior not inspected. Listing NGR: SK2072949995.' (3)

Sources/Archives (3)

  • <1> Index: NDAT. 1390. 1390.
  • <2> Article in serial: Marston, F. 1967. 'Cruck frames of Derbyshire; an interim report', Derbyshire Archaeological Journal. Volume 87, pp 117-122.
  • <3> Listed Building File: Historic England. 2011. The National Heritage List for England. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1109414?section=official-list-entry.

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Location

Grid reference SK 20729 49995 (point)
Civil Parish KNIVETON, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE

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Apr 1 2026 2:18PM

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