Firs Farmhouse

SD 52SW LEYLAND LEYLAND LANE

8/40 Nos. 468 and 470 - (Firs Farmhouse) - II

Farmhouse, C17 with later alteration and additions. Handmade brick, stone plinth, stone dressings, slate roofs. L-shaped plan: 2-bay front range with receding 2-bay crosswing (which has stone plinth and may be earlier); C19 addition in re-entrant at rear. Two storeys with attic to left hand wing; plain doorway at joint between the 2 elements; two 3-light stone mullion windows on each floor to right, but to left one sash window to each floor, that to ground floor with all glazing bars, and a square attic opening now covered with board painted as window. Two ridge chimneys, one gable chimney to rear of wing. Left hand return wall has plain door, one ground floor sash window breaking a brick hoodmould, two sash windows above; all windows in wing have stone sills and splayed stone heads; under gutter is timber wallplate. Interior: pairs of ovolo- moulded bridging beams in 3 ground floor rooms and 2 rooms above; 1st floor has crosswalls and partitions of timber framing with clamstaff and daub infill.

Listing NGR: SD5270821116