Green Farmhouse

CHURCH LAWTON C.P. LIVERPOOL ROAD WEST SJ 85 NW 7/23 Green Farmhouse 14/2/1967 - II

Farmhouse. Dated 1744. Red Flemish bond brick with a plain tile roof. Two storeys with attic. Entrance front: four bays with a band of 2 bricks depth between the ground and first floors and a dentilled band to the eaves. Doorway at right of centre with a C19 plank door and plain surround. To left of this are two 3-light C19 casement windows with cambered heads and to right is one similar window and at far right is a blocked window of similar form. To the first floor are similar window openings, that at far right being open. Above the doorway is a rectangular datestone which has an incised heart to the top below which are the initials R.L. and the date. This has a surround of moulded brick and alternately projecting bricks to the sides with a pediment above. To the attic are three gabled dormer windows of C19 date. Ridge chimney stacks at right of centre and to the right hand gable-end. To left of this range and slightly recessed is the gable-end of a range of farmbuildings which has cambered-headed window openings to each floor and a band of 2 bricks depth between these floors. This range continues, forming an open courtyard. The right hand end is pebbledashed and has two gables, that at right being of C19 date. Interior: Chamfered ceiling beams to two ground floor rooms and a staircase, removed from its original position, with square newel post and splat balusters with mouldings on the slope.

Listing NGR: SJ8173455740