Armestriding Farmhouse

SD 51 NE EUXTON off DAWBER'S LANE

4/105 Armetriding Farmhouse 17.4.1967 - II

Farmhouse, dated 1570, with later wing. Coursed sandstone rubble and limewashed scored render; stone slate roof with one chimney on the ridge and another at the rear gable (both brick). T-shaped plan, both elements of 2-bays. Two storeys, front and back doors now in rear wing close to junction; this wing is unrendered sandstone and all openings are C18 or C19. The element of principal interest is the present crosswing which has in the front and rear gables one stone mullioned window on each floor, all of 5-lights with deeply splayed reveals, ovolo-moulded mullions, and hoodmoulds; left return wall has a single- storey lean-to (with a 2-light stone mullioned window at the front), covering a central door, a 3-light stone mullioned window above it; to the left is a 2-light mullioned window and at 1st floor a 3-light window with unusual triple-moulded jambs, head and mullions, and a hoodmould; beneath this window is a datestone lettered in relief: 1570 . HA AoDMI

Interior: wing has some beams with stopped rounded-moulding, and at 1st floor one altered arch-braced roof truss with a doorway inserted in the centre.

Listing NGR: SD5426417994