Dean House Farmhouse

UP HOLLAND

SD50NW LAFFORD LANE 783-1/2/39 (East side) Dean House Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably early C17; altered. Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof. Rectangular single-depth 4-bay plan, formerly with baffle-entry from east side (now the rear). 2 storeys and 4 windows, with a high plinth to the northern half (carried round), a doorway to the 3rd bay, large modernised casement windows on both floors, and a cut-down chimney at the junction of the 1st and 2nd bays. The north gable wall has a 5-light double-chamfered stone mullion window with a cavetto-moulded hoodmould and above this a stone plaque carved with the Legs-of-Man and raised letters "T N". The rear wall, now covered at the north end by a C19 stone lean-to which serves as a porch to doorway inserted close to the corner, has a blocked chamfered one-light window to the 1st bay, blocked former doorway at the junction of the 1st and 2nd bays, blocked 4-light window to the 2nd bay with chamfered flush mullions; and, beyond the lean-to, a 2-light window with flush ovolo-and-fillet mullion. INTERIOR: the 1st bay (now kitchen) has large beam with broad chamfer; the 2nd bay contains large inglenook with stone heck which has a moulded 2-stage shoulder and chamfered bressumer with cyma stops, and large lateral beam with broad chamfer and similar stops; the partition wall between 2nd and 3rd bays has a similar beam; and the 3rd bay has a crudely chamfered lateral beam. HISTORY: said to have been built as hunting lodge, and occupied by Lord Derby on the eve of his advance to Wigan during the Civil War.

Listing NGR: SD5258906196