Burscough Hall Farmhouse

Burscough Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the early 17th century and has been enlarged and altered over time. It features red brick in Flemish bond, with some areas pebble-dashed, and has a stone slate roof with sections of corrugated asbestos sheet. The building has an irregular plan, consisting of a main range oriented east-west, with four short linked gabled wings or extensions on the north side and a large gabled barn at the west end of the south side.

The farmhouse has two low storeys and a north facade with four unequal gables. The central doorway, located under the third gable, is accessed by two steps and features a panelled door with a semi-circular canopy. There is an additional doorway into the left wing and various segmental-headed windows of different sizes and shapes, all currently boarded. Notably, there is a much larger window on the first floor of the third gable. The left return wall of the east wing has a two-light casement window at ground floor and a three-light sliding sash above. The gable of the main range includes an extruded chimney stack and a wooden cross-window at the first floor. The south front has a plinth, a board door offset to the right, a small segmental-headed window to the right of the door, a tall damaged and partly boarded window to the left, and a three-light sliding sash window above this.

Inside, the east wing contains a 17th-century stop-chamfered beam, while a small room at the rear of the main range has a beam with a 16th-century type double-chamfer. On the first floor, there is a large room beneath the third gable featuring a large segmental-arched roof truss. Historically, the farmhouse was occupied in the late 17th century by Recusants, including Dr. Henry Longe, a member of the English College at Rome, and later by Peter de Lathom, who used the house as a mass centre until the Church of St John was built around 1815.