Church Farm And Garden Wall

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD32NW COMMONSIDE, Ansdell 621-1/2/2 (North side) No.23 Church Farm and garden wall

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Farmhouse, now house. Late C17 or very early C18, remodelled in mid C19 and recently renovated. White-painted render on cobble, graduated slate roof. Single-depth linear 3-unit plan (plus 4th added in C20), with C19 rear wing. Formerly a 3-unit baffle-entry plan with open housepart in centre and lofted end bays. Jacobean style (typical of Clifton estate building in this area in C19). One-and-a-half storeys, now a 4-window range, with a low single-storey gabled porch between the 1st and 2nd bays (in line with the ridge chimney). This has a board door, a rectangular lintel with a label, a roof with projecting verges, and small windows in the side walls. The 4 windows at ground floor and 4 dormer windows above are all 3-light horizontal sliding sashes with small panes and labels over, and the dormers have projecting verges. Square 4-flue chimney on ridge in line with porch, lateral 2-flue chimney at the junction with the added 4th bay, and tall single-flue chimney at left gable. Single-storey C19 service wing to rear. INTERIOR: original plan altered by insertion of ceiling and removal of inglenook leaving only the heck; 2 axial beams in 3rd bay, both chamfered and one with a C17 stop; roof truss between 2nd and 3rd bays with severed tie-beam; and, in 3rd bay close to this, remains of a staircase partition wall of hand-made brick at ground floor and clamstaff-and-daub above (altered staircase). Front garden enclosed by garden wall of cobble.

Listing NGR: SD3485227880