Windy Bank Farmhouse

RISHTON BLACKBURN OLD ROAD SD 73 SW 2/99 Windy Bank Farmhouse 23. 6. 1965 (Formerly listed as Windy Bank) - II

Farmhouse, probably early C17, altered, now dilapidated. Rubble, faced with sandstone blocks, brought to courses, with quoins; stone slate roof with gable copings, (some missing), and chimneys (now missing) at left gable and on ridge at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays. Three-bay baffle- entry plan (3rd bay projects), with later outshut to rear of 1st and 2nd bays. Two storeys: at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays a 2-storey porch with lean-to roof sweeping out from slightly above eaves level has at ground floor a part-blocked doorway with shouldered lintel, and at 1st floor under eaves a small chamfered window lacking its mullion. To left, at junction of 1st and 2nd bays is a later single-storey porch (once gabled, now dilapidated), flanked by formerly-mullioned 4-light windows (that on right partly taken into doorway); at 1st floor a square window and a 2-light window with flush mullion. To right, front wall has collapsed and 3rd bay is gutted, but has chamfered rectangular fireplace at 1st floor, 2-tiered doorways at rear of cross wall, and a small blocked 3-light window with wooden diamond mullions at 1st floor. Rear wall of 1st floor. Rear wall of 1st bay has altered windows with very large jambs.

Listing NGR: SD7053631018