Longley Hall And Garden Wall To Front

SD 53 NW GOOSNARGH BILSBORROW LANE (off)

4/35 Longley Hall and garden wall to front

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Farmhouse, probably mid-C18, altered, but incorporating earlier fabric, including datestone of 1668. Brick, with sandstone plinth and some quoins to rear and west gable, slate roof with 2 brick chimneys. Double-depth 2-bay plan, with lean-to addition to rear. Two storeys and garrets; south front to garden has 2-course 1st floor band, gabled single-storey porch offset to the right, three 4-pane sashes at ground floor and 4 above, all with slightly segmental brick heads; left gable wall has one window on each of 3 floors and quoins up to half height of rear corner; right gable wall has 4 irregularly disposed windows on 4 levels; rear has single-storey lean-to with stone quoins, a narrow stairlight above, a large window at ground floor and a segmental-headed 2-light casement at 1st floor. Interior: large beams throughout, mostly chamfered and some with cyma stops, one (in kitchen, ground floor left) with roll moulding on the soffit and one side but roughly chamfered on the other side (possibly a re-used hearth bressummer); parlour door with geometrical bolection-moulded panelling, H-hinges, and decorated iron bolt all on the inner side; full-height doglegged staircase with closed string, turned balusters, moulded handrail, square newels; timber-framed partitions at 1st floor; lintel of former backdoor (now under lean-to) has oval panel lettered in relief ER . History original hall probably built by William Latewis (b.1544), recusant who forfeited estate 1607; owned by Rigby family in C17 (Edward Rigby, Sergeant-at-Law, died c.1682); in mid-C18 owned by James Parkinson of Preston, apothecary. House probably rebuilt by one of the Parkinsons, using fabric of earlier building. Garden wall to south, of handmade brick with ridged sandstone coping of C17 type, L-shaped, enclosing east and south sides of garden. Reference: Fishwick Goosnargh pp 181-4. (Also known as Latus Hall).

Listing NGR: SD5433839274