Heasandford Cottage Heasandford House Heasandford Lodge

Heasandford House, Heasandford Lodge and Heasandford Cottage on Queen Victoria Road, Burnley

A manor house of the de Stansfield family, now divided into 5 dwellings. The building is probably early 16th century in origin but has been substantially altered and extended over time. It is constructed mostly of sandstone random rubble, with parts rendered and painted white. The roof is covered with stone slate except in the centre section, which uses Welsh slate.

The building follows an irregular U-plan, formed by a hall-range running east to west, with a rear outshut, a long projecting west wing, a short east wing, and an addition to the east side of the east wing.

The main front elevation rises 2 storeys with cellar and attic accommodation, with a 3-window central range. This range was remodelled in the early 18th century and is now rendered and painted white. It features a central doorway set in a moulded architrave with a keystone and floating pediment, with a painted coat of arms above (the arms of the Haydock family). The ground floor has 2 tall cross-windows with ovolo-moulded surrounds and slender hood-moulds; the original mullions and transoms have been replaced with 20th-century joinery, though fragments of the originals have been found in the garden. The first floor has 3 similar but shorter windows, linked by hood-moulds. At the east gable end is a large extruded chimney stack, now mostly covered by the later addition.

The west wing is of very irregular, large random rubble and comprises 2 structural bays. Its long re-entrant wall has few openings: a Tudor-arched doorway offset to the right of centre with a chamfered surround and studded board door (no longer in use); above this, a former 3-light mullioned window that is mostly blocked and reduced to a single light; and one small inserted window on each floor to the right. The 3-window south gable wall features circa 1900 bay windows at ground floor, altered windows at first floor, a 3-light attic window, an oculus above it, and the stump of a finial. The west return wall contains 19th- and 20th-century openings.

The east wing is rendered and painted white like the centre, but with exposed quoins. It is asymmetrical, with eaves that are lower on the left than the right. It has a doorway to the left, a tall cross-window casement at ground floor, a 4-light double-chamfered mullioned window at first floor with round-headed lights and hollow spandrels, and a blocked round-headed light to the attic with a thin hood-mould. The gable copings feature kneelers.

At the rear, the centre and western bays of the main range have outshuts in two phases of construction. The western outshut has quoins at both corners, a doorway to the left, a 7-light double-chamfered mullioned window at ground floor, and a 4-light flush-mullioned window above. The central outshut has a cross-window stairlight to the right with jambs matching those of the front cross-windows and ovolo-and-fillet mullion and transom; a 3-light flush-mullion window low to the left; and a recessed 2-light casement above with moulded jambs.

The addition to the east of the east wing, formerly a farmhouse and now known as Heasandford Cottage, is mostly of rubble with quoins. It presents 3 gables facing east and contains various altered 19th-century openings.

The interior of the east wing includes a very thick partition wall and a fine chamber fireplace at first floor with a moulded rectangular surround. The building retains unusual arch-braced roof trusses of early 16th-century type, suggesting either a formerly open hall or the re-use of structural elements.