Leyland Bridge Farmhouse

SD 43 SE LEA AND COTTAM LEA ROAD

6/104 Leyland Bridge Farmhouse

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Farmhouse, now house, dated 1651 on porch, altered. Daubed render probably on brick, steeply pitched corrugated sheet roof with boxed eaves covering thatch, brick chimney. Gable to road. Three-bay baffle-entry plan (altered entry). One-and-a-half storeys; 1st floor band (covered by render); windows mostly C19 alterations in Jacobean style with hoodmoulds, diamond-pattern leaded glazing in casements, former front door on south side in line with ridge chimney at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, present entrance front on north side which has a gabled porch to the middle bay (modern datestone on porch lettered "1651") and a plain doorway to the 3rd bay. Roof has small dormer on north side, large one on south side. Interior: middle bay has inglenook with cambered bressummer, 2 cambered beams, all these with stopped chamfer and all apparently re-used cruck blades; similar re-used cruck blades in service end and as purlins.

Listing NGR: SD4969731141