Update on the ruined cottage at Barley

[Lydart]

Thats a good picture, Maggie.  It gives an impression of just how big the building was ... its obviously no peasants house !   

Has the ground the side where you stood to take the photo been dug ?    The ground to left and right ?   Could it have had out-buildings ?   Buildings the other side of the track ??

[Maggie.]

This is the front doorway looking out.  More impresssive stonework and those door jambs are splayed so door opening widens as you come in.  There is a collection of bits of old firegrate in the background.

I notice my gloved hand is in the pic - hmmmm, mustn't have taken it.

[bishenbertie]

As you look through the doorway to the other room you can see two holes in the wall,  I wonder what they were for.

[Maggie.]

The cottage has undergone many alterations over the centuries, with doorways knocked through and then others being bricked up.  Two openings are bricked up here probably done in Victorian times.  An entire back room was been bricked up when they first started the dig.

At one stage there had been an outbuilding, probably a privvy.  There are buildings still existing close by.  There is a barn and the trackway in front of the house leads to it.  There are two or three farm and barn modern convertions grouped together within 100 yards of the ruin and the whole group together with the ruin will account for 'Overhouses' in the census records.  I believe all the buildings shown on the old maps are accounted for.

2 more pics, this time of bricked up openings.

[Maggie.]

... and another fireplace in the 2nd front room.

As you look through the doorway to the other room you can see two holes in the wall, I wonder what they were for.

I don't know what they are bb, unless they are simply missing stones.  I'll check on other photos.

[Maggie.]

... and finally, because I'm sure you have had enough of all these photos, here is one we I took on an early trip with just my OH.  We couldn't gain access to the site as it was cordoned off, but this shows the overall size quite well, and the position of the reservoir at the left hand side, and also the barn that is at the end of the unearthed trackway.

Maggie

[karenlee]

Maggie

I am loving this thread.  I wish it happened more often here, discussion of social history can provide so much information to flesh out our family trees.  

So when I rob a bank, any chance of a piece of floor to crash on so I can go see this stuff up close?

[Maggie.]

This is a view from the opposite side with the reservoir on the right hand side.  You can see the dig in the middle distance, also the barn.  Good Old Pendle is wearing her winter coat in the background.

Maggie

[groom]

Keep them going Maggie - there are another 9 pages to go and everyone is enjoying them.

You'd better hurry up and do that bank job Karen, you've only got a few weeks until it is demolished.