Bolton Green Farmhouse

SD 51 NE 5/12

CHARNOCK RICHARD, BACK LANE, Bolton Green Farmhouse

17.4.1967

GV II*

House, dated 1612 (1611 inside), possibly with some later alterations. Coursed rubble of thin red sandstone with plinth and large quoins, slate roof with one chimney on the ridge, one at the gable of the rear extension (and a modern chimney at front left corner). Roughly cruciform plan, the 3-bay baffle-entry house having a porch to front and a kitchen extension to rear of main chimney stack; 1st bay continued to rear as outshut containing stairs. Two storeys; wide 2-storey gabled porch at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, doorway with moulded jambs and moulded Tudor-arch lintel offset to right, a 3-light window on the left and another above which has a stepped hoodmould enclosing a datestone lettered in relief RLML 1612 There are 17 chamfered stone mullion windows (mostly with hoodmoulds) of uniform pattern which may be of later date; those in front wall left of the porch are of 5 and 6 lights on both floors (the latter formed of 2 groups of 3), and 4 lights to the right. Adjoining rear of kitchen extension, and lower, is a former stable with loft approached by external steps at right angles to the gable.

Interior: inglenook with stone heck and moulded bressummer; ¼ round moulded beams throughout and timber framed flat floor partitions; fine dogleg staircase of late C17 type with gates at the foot, triple stage balustered screen at the landing, and foliated plaster decoration on beams above the well; upper room in 3rd bay has stone fireplace with Tudor-arched lintel lettered 1611 RLML IB +

Listing NGR: SD5514817751