Knowsley Farmhouse

WEETON WITH PREESE KIRKHAM ROAD SD 33 SE Knowsley Farmhouse 8/78 - (Formerly listed as Knowsley Farm)

• II

Farmhouse, dated 1673 on east wall, altered, damaged by fire, renovated, now house. Colour-washed brick, steeply pitched thatched roof trapped between crow-stepped gable parapets, with ridge chimney. Two-unit baffle-entry plan. Two storeys: former front on east side (to garden) has altered openings: 3 windows on each floor, mostly large casements with glazing bars, and at 1st floor level over the position of the original door (now blocked) a datestone inscribed WB (= William Bottiler). Set back at left end is single-storey 1673 extension (said to be servant accommodation, now kitchen). Right gable has large modern casement on each floor; rear (present front) has an inserted door to the right flanked by small windows and now with a thatched canopy, a similar window above, and in the left bay only a stairlight and a little window under the eaves. Interior: in housepart 2 ovolo-moulded beams, one with an inserted partition beneath it, both with stops concealed; in service room 2 chamfered beams, one with 2 cyma stops. History: said to have been built for Thomas Bottiler whose son William married daughter of Earl of Derby. (Reference: Watson and McClintock Traditional Houses of the Fylde p.64).

Listing NGR: SD3853134679