Davenport House Farm

Davenport House Farm is a late 17th-century house, originally a farmhouse, located in Chorley. It is built of Flemish bond brick with a slate roof and extends to two storeys with an attic.

The north front has vitrified headers and is arranged with three bays. A doorway is slightly right of centre, featuring a flat, replacement lintel and a double cambered relieving arch above with a wooden panel in the tympanum. The ground floor has windows on either side, each with five lights, chamfered stone surrounds, and mullions, divided into three panes per light. Double cambered relieving arches span over the middle window. The first floor has similar windows. String courses run between the floors; the lower one consists of two rows of stretchers supported on alternately projecting headers, while the upper one comprises three rows of overlapping stretchers. 18th-century and 19th-century outbuildings adjoin the north front on the right and left, respectively.

The south front is double-gabled and features a string course above the ground floor similar to the north front. Another string course above the first floor consists of two rows of stretchers sandwiching a row of canted headers. A 19th-century door and porch are centrally placed on the right. A ground floor window to the left has three lights, originally four, with chamfered stone mullions and a lintel of headers extending to the left, indicating the original fourth light; the extended lintel remains. Similar windows are on the first floor, and the left-hand one indicates a formerly four-light window with a joint in the brickwork. A two-light chamfered window is located in the attic, and a similar window on the same gable, originally lower and to the right, has been reduced to a single two-pane light with a new wooden surround. A 20th-century two-light window and French windows replace a three-light window on the ground floor right, which originally had a chamfered stone surround and mullions.

On the east side, a four-light window with a chamfered stone surround, mullions and a double relieving arch is visible on the ground floor to the left. Other windows and doors are 19th-century replacements. The house contains a good contemporary staircase.