Needless Inn Farmhouse And Attached Garden Wall

LATHOM

SD40NW LADY ALICE'S DRIVE 663-1/4/71 (South side) 11/08/72 Needless Inn Farmhouse and attached garden wall (Formerly Listed as: ORMSKIRK BLYTHE LANE, Lathom (South East side) Needless Inn Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse with attached garden wall. Early to mid C18, enlarged and altered. Pebble-dashed render on handmade brick, with sandstone plinth and quoins, stone slate roof. L-plan formed by single-depth 2-unit main range with projecting porch and added kitchen wing to rear. Two storeys and attics, 1:1:1 windows, tall and almost symmetrical, with a 2-storey gabled porch offset right of centre and 2 windows on each floor: the porch has quoins, a round-headed outer doorway and a very small 2-light casement at 1st floor, and the other windows are all low segmental-headed 3-light casements with altered glazing. Both gable walls have extruded chimney stacks with diagonal shafts and small attic windows. The rear wing has 3-light casement windows with glazing bars and raised punch-dressed sills, a board door next to the junction, and a gable chimney. INTERIOR: the main range has the housepart in the 2nd bay, with a pair of chamfered beams, and the 1st bay partitioned to make a very narrow dairy to the front (which is the north side) and a service room or parlour to the rear, with a pair of large chamfered beams. Purlin roof with re-used timbers. GARDEN WALL: enclosing north and east sides of front garden, of red brick in English garden wall bond with sandstone coping, approx. 1m high, with the side wall ramped down to the front corner, and a gateway in line with the porch, with rusticated stone jambs. Forms group with associated wash-house approx. 3m from rear left corner (q.v.) and farm building approx. 50m north (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4454809622