Hamers Cottage (Marked On Ordnance Survey Map As Hamers Farm) is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1967. Farmhouse.
Hamers Cottage (Marked On Ordnance Survey Map As Hamers Farm)
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A farmhouse, now a house, likely dating back to the 17th century or earlier, and altered and extended in the 18th century. A loomshop was added to the rear of a later wing. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, and has a stone slate roof topped with two brick chimneys. The plan is a "T" shape, consisting of a partially cruck-framed two-bay range aligned north-south, with a two-bay wing added to the centre of the west side, and the loomshop attached to the rear of that wing.
The symmetrical, 18th-century wing that forms the front has a central doorway in line with a ridge chimney, and two 3-light windows on each floor. The lower windows have been altered to casements, while the upper retain parts of their original sliding sash windows with glazing bars. The older crosswing to the right has altered 3-light mullioned windows on each floor of the gable, with a hood mould over the upper window (but lacking its mullions). The return wall includes a low plinth, cruck padstone, a visible vertical joint between bays, shallow buttresses to each bay, a blocked round-headed light with a hood mould to the rear of the joint, a small inserted window, a 4-light chamfered flush mullion window above, a small window under the eaves, and a side wall chimney for the first bay. The rear gable showcases a 3-light and a 5-light chamfered flush mullion window on the ground floor, both lacking one mullion and both featuring hood moulds. There's also a cut-down square chimneystack at the west corner. A large full-height lean-to with a catslide roof projects beyond the wing, extending over the rear, and contains a door alongside a continuous multiple-light mullioned loomshop window, with some of the lights blocked.
Inside the older part of the building, a full cruck truss remains, with a low tie-beam, collar (cut for a doorway), and yoke. Trenches are visible which once held the purlins of a steeper roof. The ground floor of the front bay has two lateral beams with ¼-round mouldings and tongue and cyma stops. There's a stone fireplace with a humped lintel, partially obscured by a modern fireplace. Behind the cruck tie-beam, in the rear bay, is another beam supported on a moulded stone corbel, along with two chamfered beams, one exhibiting post mortices in its soffit. The upper floor of the rear bay is lower than elsewhere. A former cross-corner fireplace was removed to create a doorway. The 18th-century section includes back-to-back fireplaces, one with corbelled jambs. The cruck-framed section might be a surviving crosswing of an earlier open hall.
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