Chisnall Hall Farmhouse

SD 51 SW 7/87

COPPULL, WRIGHTINGTON, off CHISNALL AVENUE, Chisnall Hall Farmhouse

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Farmhouse, probably earlier C18 but incorporating features which may be earlier. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, concrete tiled roof with brick gable chimneys. Double pile 3-bay plan. Two storeys and attic. Front and rear walls are of strongly contrasting style: front is symmetrical, has round-headed stone doorcase with plain fanlight and keystone; 5 boxed sashed windows with glazing bars (a tie bar crosses the facade at door head level, and there are tie plates flanking the door); rear has stone mullioned and transomed windows, one of 6 lights at ground floor of 1st bay, 2 matching this at 1st floor, and at centre of 1st floor a stairlight with 3 vertically diminishing pairs of lights; ground floor of 3rd bay has a 3-light stone mullion window. Centre of ground floor covered by a single-storey lean-to. Interior: despite arrangement of rooms and their proportions which are orthodox for an early C18 house, includes ground floor beams with deep stop-chamfer characteristic of late C16 or early C17, some doors of studded planks and others panelled, and a panelled 1st floor screen which has elaborately carved upper panels: these could be contemporary with windows of rear wall, but not with the facade.

Listing NGR: SD5395912594