Anderton House

SD 43 SE WOODPLUMPTON BLACKLEACH LANE Bartle

6/125 Anderton House

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Farmhouse, later C17, altered. Cruck-framed, clad in sandstone rubble rendered at the lower level and all whitewashed, steeply pitched corrugated iron roof with boxed eaves and brick gable chimneys. End-baffle-entry plan of 3 bays, the left-end bay probably formerly a shippon or stable. One and a half storeys; east front has board door near right hand end protected by wooden porch, another door to the 1st bay, 3 windows at ground floor, of 3, 2 and 3 lights, all with wooden mullions and glazing bars but of differing sizes (lower to left, higher to right), and gabled dormers to the 2nd and 3rd bays, with similar 2-light windows. Right gable (rebuilt in brick) has a 2-light sliding sash to loft. Rear has a central doorway protected by a wooden porch like that at front, 2 small square 9-pane fixed windows with some remains of labels; 1st bay rebuilt in brick. Interior: full cruck truss at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays (details concealed); housepart in 3rd bay has inglenook with stop-chamfered bressummer, and 2 beams similarly decorated.

Listing NGR: SD4817433285