Old Manor Farm

Old Manor Farm is a house dating from the 15th century, featuring a cruck-framed open hall, a coursed rubble 17th-century service crosswing, a box-framed 16th-century solar crosswing, and a 20th-century brick wing at the rear. The roof is covered with graduated stone slates. The solar crosswing, which is the first bay, has a gabled roof and square-panel framing on a stone plinth. It includes a 3-light casement window on each floor and an ovolo-moulded bressumer beam. The two-bay house part has a stone plinth, studs with diagonal bracing and a midrail, a central door with a canopy, and 3-light cast iron casement windows on either side, along with a 3-light gabled dormer window. The service crosswing features a projecting stone plinth, a large gable stack, and a 4-light timber mullion window with a hoodmould. A patio door has been inserted in the right elevation, and there is a 4-light timber mullioned window on the left elevation, which is rendered. The rear of the building is mostly cased in brick but retains a 3-light dormer window with a coved jettied gable. Inside, the house part was originally open to the roof but now has a floor inserted across half its width. It contains three closed cruck trusses with collar ties and cruck spurs, as well as exposed timber frame internal partitions. It is noted as "one of the finest existing examples of a small medieval manor house in Lancashire or Cheshire" by W.A. Singleton in "Traditional House-Types in Rural Lancashire and Cheshire."