Legh Cottage

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SJ 78 SW 4/44

HIGH LEGH WARRINGTON ROAD Legh Cottage

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House. Late C17, restored in late C19. Timber frame with brick infill and slate roof. Two storeys, two cells, baffle entry plan. Entrance front: ten x two cells of small framing with angle braces to sides. C19 and C20 windows, four-light casement to ground floor left, two-light similar windows to its right. Doorway to right of this. Date 1884 over doorway and cypher. Lean-to open porch in front of door with contiguous square bay window also with lean-to roof to right. Central ridge stack of 1884. Right hand gable end: four x two cells of small framing with angle braces to sides. C19 brick nogging. Queen-post truss gable. Left hand gable end. Four x three cells of small framing with angle braces (some timbers missing) five-light casement window to ground floor two-light to first floor. Gable extends to left to former outhouse, joined to building during the restoration of 1884. Dove Cote to left of extended gable. Outhouse is of four x three cells of this small framing.

Listing NGR: SJ7129783128