| Description | Deep Clough, Warley. c.1800 farmhouse later converted to a laithe house.
Deep Clough was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Colum Giles in 1980 as part of the WYAS/RCHME Rural Houses Survey. The photographic images and sketch plan produced by the assessment are held by WYAAS. The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'This is a stone house of c.1800, converted to a laithe within a few decades. The house faces south and is of two storeys. It is built in coursed rubble masonry, quoined at the angles. The windows have square mullions flush with the surface of the wall, but off the first floor are two windows with splayed flush mullions, possibly reused from an earlier structure. The house seems to have been of three cells, with the entry into the central cell. This room, the housebody or kitchen, is heated by a fireplace in the wall which divided it from the parlour to the south. The parlour is also heated by a fireplace sharing the same stack. To the east of the parlour was a small service room. The north room, now part of the laithe, has no original features, although a blocked window survives in the west wall.
At the north east angle of the house is a straight joint in the masonry between house and laithe; the break is quoined and the quoins belong to the house rather than to the laithe. This demonstrates that the house is the earlier build, despite the similarity in the rough rubble plinth that both parts show. The laithe is built in inferior masonry, probably of mid 19th century date. When it was built, or shortly afterwards, the north cell of the house was taken over as part of the laithe. The laithe has an outshut at the north east angle. An outshut was also added to the new house at some date in the 19th century'.
(Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1980. 'Deep Clough. Warley').
House has deteriorated further since Giles’s visit in 1980. Roof now collapsed in parts (https://maps.google.co.uk/. Web site accessed 08/01/2014). |