Adamsons Farmhouse

SD 43 NE WOODPLUMPTON CUDDY HILL Eaves

Adamson's Farmhouse 3/126 II

Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1620 internally; recently renovated. Handmade brick, painted white, tiled roof with projecting boarded eaves. Four-bay plan, with baffle-entry to 2nd bay, former stable (now garage) in 4th bay. One and a half storeys; board door in line with ridge chimney to left of junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, a square casement to the left and a little square window to the 1st bay further left, both breaking remains of old labels, and a square dormer breaking the eaves of the 2nd bay; continuation to right, under slightly lower roof, is single storey, has a square window to the 3rd bay and garage door to the 4th. Rear: remains of labels to a firewindow in the 2nd bay, and in each of the main bays, broken by 2 square windows; a door and a horizontal rectangular window to the 3rd bay. Interior: doorway from housepart in 2nd bay to former buttery in 1st bay has flat wooden lintel, nicked in the centre and inscribed "WA 1620"; timber-framed partition wall between 1st and 2nd bays, finished as a collar truss with angle struts, the tie-beam broken by an inserted door, and curved windbraces from the principals to the upper of 2 pairs of slender purlins; gable wall at this end (south) has similar windbracing to a timber frame, of which the collar and one principal are exposed. Reference: R.C. Watson and M.E. McClintock Traditional Houses of the Fylde (1979) pp.35-6, but NB cruck erroneously presumed.

Listing NGR: SD4922537331