Bullsnape Hall

SD 54 SE GOOSNARGH BULLSNAPE LANE

2/39 Bullsnape Hall 11.11.1966 II

Farmhouse, formerly manor house, C17, altered. Handmade brick (front roughcast), some sandstone rubble with quoins, slate roof. Originally E-plan but now F-plan, the left wing anciently demolished: 3-bay hall range with projecting porch in the centre and crosswing at the right end. Three storeys: full-height gabled porch-cum-stairturret in line with ridge chimney has doorway offset to right and a small segmental-headed 2-light casement at 2nd floor (offset to left); to left of porch a horizontal rectangular 3-light casement on each of the first 2 floors, to the right a chamfered mullion and transom 8-light window at ground floor and an altered window on each floor above (both formerly mullion-and-transom); gable of right wing has 2 windows on each of the first 2 floors and one above, all square casements, and the upper with modern wooden mullions and transoms. Rear: in the centre a full-height lean-to of sandstone with quoins has a 3-light chamfered mullion window at ground floor of the rear wall and one similar window on each floor of the right side; 1st bay of hall range has remains of a 3-light brick mullion window with hoodmould at 1st floor; rear gable of wing has inter alia a doorway at ground floor and a 4-light window at 2nd floor. Interior: housepart and kitchen to hall range have back-to-back inglenooks with stone hecks and large bressummers, the latter with tongue-stopped chamfer, that in the kitchen set unusually high, and kitchen has 2 similarly decorated beams; housepart has 2 beams concealed by boxing, 2 doors at the lower end with moulded panelling and one door in the rear wall with fielded panels; staircase altered. History: manor house of the Threlfall family, held of Knights of St. John, until division of estate in later C16 when it was occupied by Procter family, recusants whose estate was mostly sequestrated in 1607. References: VCH Lancs vii p.194; Fishwick Goosnargh pp.150-1. (Other similarly reduced houses in this parish include Blake Hall, and Ashes, White Hill, and White Lee farmhouses, q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD5723340350