College Farmhouse

UP HOLLAND

SD50NW STONEY BROW, Roby Mill 783-1/2/119 (North side) 25/06/73 College Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: SKELMERSDALE AND HOLLAND STONEY BROW Walthew Park Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse. Probably late C17 or early C18, enlarged in later C18, enlarged again and altered in C19. Coursed sandstone rubble and coursed squared sandstone (the north range watershot), with slate roofs and brick chimneys. Large irregular rectangular plan formed by 3 ranges on an east-west axis parallel to the lane, the earliest probably that in the centre, the next on the south side (beside lane) and the last at the rear. 2 storeys, the 4-window west front composed of 3 unequal gables and the southernmost of these set back and overlapped by a gabled 2-storey porch. This porch has a square-headed doorway with rectangular lintel and studded board door, and a square window above with altered glazing. To the right, the west gable of the south range has one 3-light chamfered mullion window on each floor, both with simple hoodmoulds and now blocked; its south side has 2 enlarged windows on each floor and a blocked former doorway at the right-hand end; its east gable has blocked mullioned windows like those at the front, and a gable chimney. The wide intermediate gable of the west front has one square window on each floor, with raised sills, thin lintels and altered glazing; and the narrower gable to the left has a doorway at the junction and one altered window on each floor, all these with wedge lintels. Various chimneys. INTERIOR: remodelled, but centre range has chamfered beams of C17 type.

Listing NGR: SD5188006088