Sales'S Farmhouse With Attached Barn

SD 81 SW RAMSBOTTOM SALES'S LANE 12/140 Sales's Farmhouse with attached 9.8.1966 barn

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Farmhouse and barn under one roof, dated 1679 on re-cut lintel of doorway of lean-to at right end. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, stone slate roof with brick chimney close to right gable. L-shaped plan: house of 2-bay end-baffle-entry type with extension to rear of 2nd bay, and 3-bay barn continued to left. Two storeys, walls raised 3 or 4 courses, rear extension separately roofed; original entrance in right return wall now covered by single-storey lean-to; present entrance by inserted door to 1st bay. Left of this a chamfered mullion window with hoodmould (originally 4 lights, altered, now lacking 2 mullions), right of it a chamfered mullion 4-light window and a 2-light firewindow with linked hoodmoulds, both lacking one mullion; 1st floor has 2 chamfered flush mullion windows, both 3-lights, altered, lacking one mullion. At right end lean-to (replacing original porch) has doorway with re-cut lintel inscribed ":IS : 1679:", and extension partly covered by this has plain doorway and remains of one flush mullion window on each floor. Interior: 2nd bay has inglenook fireplace with very large crudely chamfered bressumer, heck to original doorway on the left, 2 chamfered beams. History: Thomas Sale, Quaker, imprisoned 1665 (Bury Guardian 4.9.1926, and 21 and 28.10, 4.11.1933). (NB plan-type closely resembling Ridshaw Farmhouse, Bury Old Road, qv).

Listing NGR: SD8179814987