4, Nixons Court

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SD 52 SW 4/192

ULNES WALTON, LEYLAND, NIXON COURT, No 4

(Formerly listed as Nixons Farmhouse, NIXON LANE)

17.4.67

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Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1719 on lintel, altered, recently renovated. Handmade brick with some stone quoins at ground floor, stone plinth, stone slate roof. Double-depth 2-bay plan with projecting porch. Two and a half storeys, symmetrical, with gable chimneys, bands on 2 levels; 2½-storey gabled porch has rusticated stone surround to segmental-headed outer doorway, large lintel with shouldered panel lettered in relief N/R I/1719 , a vertical rectangular window on each floor above, the lower with gauged brick head; 2 other windows on each floor, all like these except that at ground floor to left which has been altered, all with altered glazing, and those to the attic in gabled ½-dormers. Right gable wall has a tall narrow firewindow with gauged brick head and a 2-course band over it, and a doorway to the rear bay (this being a gable-end baffle-entry); rear has 6 simple rectangular windows, those in the centre being stairlights, all with similarly altered glazing. Interior: front and rear rooms of 2nd bay each have an inglenook with stone heck and stopped-moulded bressumers; ovolo-moulded beams on both floors; full-height closed-string staircase with panelled rectangular newels, turned balusters; smoke hoods at 1st floor over the inglenook; plank doors with moulded surrounds attached.

Listing NGR: SD5100821788