Haighton House

SD 53 SE HAIGHTON COW HILL (off)

8/90 Haighton House

II Large house, now partitioned to make 3 dwellings, 1820, built by Captain Evan Richard Gerard, enlarged after 1832 by new owner James Francis Anderton. Brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings, shallow-pitched hipped slate roofs. Square plan formed by 5-bay front range with 5-bay rear extensions under 3-span roof. Two storeys, symmetrical, in late Georgian style, with 1st floor sillband, moulded cornice, low parapet, and sashed windows with stone sills and splayed stone heads; various multiple-flue chimney stacks. Centre bay, breaking forward slightly (the parapet slightly pedimented), has stone porch of coupled Tuscan pillars with an entablature, panelled and glazed door with side lights and segmental fanlight with radiating glazing bars; ground floor has 4 tall 6-pane sashed windows, 1st floor has five 12-pane sashes. Right return wall has canted full-height bay in the centre, 7 tall 6-pane sashes on each floor; left return wall has single-storey canted stone bay in the centre, windows of varied widths but mostly 12-paned except in bay which has full-height windows; rear has 2 doors and varied sashed windows; extension or service wing continued to left from rear corner, now used as farmhouse (the 3rd dwelling), is of less interest. Interior: principal feature of interest is entrance hall and staircase, separated by a screen of modified Corinthian coupled pilasters and responds, with a basket arch in the centre, and leading to an open-well staircase with scrolled brackets and 2 stick-balusters per tread, illuminated by a large domed skylight. Other parts undergoing restoration at time of survey (1985). History: Anderton family, resident here until C20, active in social life of Preston, identified with this site by colloquial name for the wooded valley to the west, "Squire Anderton's Wood", otherwise Fulwood Park Wood.

Listing NGR: SD5649833809