Higher Crombleholme Farmhouse

SD 54 SE 2/79

GOOSNARGH WHITECHAPEL Higher Crombleholme Farmhouse

II Farmhouse, C17, altered and enlarged in C18. Random rubble with quoins, the front and right return walls covered with scored stucco painted white, 2-span slate roofs with gable chimneys, the front roof with stone gable copings and kneelers. Square plan formed by 3-bay C17 house with parallel rear addition. Two and a half (front) and 2 storeys; gabled single-storey porch offset right of centre, above this an altered 2-light double-chamfered mullion window lacking the mullion, to the right one square recessed casement with glazing bars on each floor, to the left one 2-light casement at ground floor. Left gable wall has 2 double-chamfered mullion windows with hoodmoulds, 2 lights at ground floor left, 4 lights at 1st floor right, remains of another 4-light window at ground floor containing the lintel of a former door; and a blocked attic light. Right gable wall has a long hoodmould on each floor including the attic, which has one light patent. The addition has one square window with square surround on each floor at this end, a doorway at the other end. Interior: at each gable wall of the front part is a stone C18 fireplace with corbelled jambs, that in the 1st bay with moulded surround and cornice, the other plain.

Listing NGR: SD5642142127