Spring Bank Farmhouse And Adjoining Farm Building

MANCHESTER

SJ89NE TAN YARD BROW, Gorton North 698-1/5/697 (West side) 03/10/74 Spring Bank Farmhouse and adjoining farm building (Formerly Listed as: TAN YARD BROW, Gorton (West side) Spring Bank Farmhouse and adjoining farm building)

GV II

Farmhouse now house, with attached stable or barn. c.1780, altered. Handmade brick (the house now roughcast and painted white), stone slate roof (recently replaced with composition tiles on house). L-shaped plan formed by double-depth double-fronted house with rear wing to right and farm building continued to left. Two low storeys, the house with two 3-light casement windows at 1st floor, plain doorway in centre of ground floor, altered window to left and added bay window to right. Barn or stable continued to left has wagon doorway to left, with wooden lintel (wall above this re-built), a buttress offset right of centre, a former doorway immediately left of this altered as a window and 2 altered windows to the right; and at 1st floor a small-paned 2-light horizontal-sliding sash in the rebuilt wall over the wagon door, a small 9-pane fixed window in the centre and a square pitching doorway to the right flanked by diamond-pattern breathers. Rear: barn has more diamond-pattern breathers; rear wing of house has altered openings. Interior: barn has king-post roof truss with fishbone struts, scarf-jointed purlins and original rafters; left room of house has 2 large spine beams, one with stopped chamfer and the other re-used, and massive purlins.

Listing NGR: SJ8914296086