Manor Farmhouse With Forecourt Railings And Gates

SJ 78 NW DUNHAM MASSEY STATION ROAD (east side)

6/104 Manor Farmhouse 5.3.39 with forecourt railings and gates. G.V. II

Farmhouse, built as a Dower House by the 2nd Earl of Warrington. Mid C18. Flemish and English garden wall bond brick with graduated slate and stone slate roofs. Double- depth central-staircase plan with 3 bays, 3 storeys, a 3- storey brewery wing at the left and a porch at the rear. Stone plinth. Recessed porch with semi-elliptical brick arch, 6-panel door with overlight and stone steps with iron handrails. 2 12-pane sash windows on the ground floor and 3 15-pane on the first, all with flat brick arches and stone sills; 3 casement windows with glazing bars to second floor. Coped gablet with kneelers over central bay with a clock face in a brick surround. Gable stacks and coped gables with kneelers. Similar gablet to rear but all casement windows with segmental brick arched heads. Rear ground floor and wing has 2 and 3-light double-chamfered stone mullion windows and wing has a hipped roof. Good garden forecourt with enriched wrought ironwork double gates and railings and rusticated stone piers. Interior has a good staircase with turned spindle balusters and deep handrail, and a panelled room with fluted pilasters and ovolo-moulded beams.

Listing NGR: SJ7252387991