Ambrose Hall

SD 43 NE WOODPLUMPTON PLUMPTON LANE (off)

3/131 Ambrose Hall

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Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Dated 1697 internally, but probably earlier; altered 1871. Stuccoed brick painted white, slate roof. Three-bay baffle-entry plan. Two storeys; 1st floor band; doorway (in line with large ridge chimney stack) at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, protected by single-storey gabled porch with arched opening; three C19 windows on each floor, all with wooden mullions and transoms, and hoodmoulds. Left gable has single-storey lean-to porch, 2 small attic windows, gable chimney; rear has short outshut to 1st bay, porch to 3rd bay (like that at front), some sashed windows. Interior: housepart in 2nd bay and kitchen in 3rd bay have back-to-back inglenook fireplaces, the former with tongue-stopped 1/4-round moulded bressummer and a recessed panel above lettered in relief "W.S 1697" (= William Shaw); housepart has beam also with tongue-stopped 1/4-round moulding, and 2 doorways to 1st bay (now other dwelling); 1st floor has numerous chamfered beams with cyma stops, and some original timber-framed partitions; in roof space a large brick smoke hood, one collar truss with curved principals. History: Ambrose family associated with Woodplumpton in C16 and C17, William Ambrose given as "of Ambrose Hall" in 1629. Reference: George Jackson Woodplumpton its History in Religion, Houses and Families (1971), pp.86-7.

Listing NGR: SD5000335207