White Rails Farmhouse And Garden Wall

ORMSKIRK

SD40NW ASMALL LANE 663-1/4/125 (North side) 11/08/72 White Rails Farmhouse and garden wall

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Farmhouse. Late C17 or early C18; altered. Handmade red brick in English garden wall bond (3+1) on stone plinth, composition tile roof. Three-unit lobby-entry plan with projecting porch and added rear wing. Two low storeys, 2:1:1 windows, with a 2-storey gabled porch at the junction of the 2nd and 3rd bays. This has a square-headed doorway with altered door, and a 2-light casement above. Otherwise, both floors have horizontal-sliding sashes of 2 and 2 lights, those at ground floor with segmental relieving arches. Ridge chimney at the junction of the 2nd and 3rd bays. Attached to the right-hand gable is a high screen wall (the back of a C19 outbuilding) which links to the associated barn (q.v.). Rear: blocked doorway near east end, and blocked window next to this; one-unit service wing with sliding sash window at ground floor and casement above; porch in angle. INTERIOR: some chamfered beams, and at the left end of the range a c.1700 dog-legged staircase with closed string, turned balusters and moulded handrail. GARDEN WALL: shallow front garden enclosed by wall of red brick except for the right-hand end and its return which are of sandstone rubble brought to courses, with rounded coping. Forms group with barn approx. 6m east (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4048308858