Old Shaw Green Farmhouse

SD 51 NW EUXTON DAWBERS LANE

4/107 Old Shaw Green Farmhouse 17.4.1967 (Formerly listed as Old Shaw Green) - II

Farmhouse, dated 1703, altered in 1930s, now house. Hand made brick on high chamfered plinth of red sandstone rubble, quoins; stone slate roof with gable copings and kneelers, a 4-flue chimney stack on the ridge, and another chimney at right side wall (part corbelled). Originally L-shaped plan of 3 bays with forward crosswing and gabled stair turret on the right (re-entrant now filled by modern outshut). Two and a half storeys; 1st floor band to front and left gable. Casement windows at ground floor with segmental brick heads; the modern outshut to the left is of compatible style and materials (except stone doorcase) and incorporates over the door a datestone lettered in relief S T D 1703; similar modern single-storey extension at left end. Right side wall has one window on each floor. Rear: wing projects slightly with 2 windows to each floor and one in attic; 1st and 2nd bays have 3 tall windows each floor (one at ground floor altered as door), and at the junction of the bays 2 small fire or cupboard windows on each floor: all the ground floor openings and all the firewindows have segmental brick heads. On roof are 2 modern hipped-roof dormers. Interior: back-to-back inglenook fireplaces with bressummers (that in kitchen now concealed); chamfered beams in 2nd bay, others ovolo-moulded; dog-leg staircase to full height, with string, column newels, turned balusters and moulded handrail; some box-framed partition walls with clamstaff-and-daub infil.

Listing NGR: SD5348318371