The Old Toby Public House

SKELMERSDALE

SD40NE ASHURST ROAD 783-1/1/1 (South side) 25/06/73 The Old Toby Public House (Formerly Listed as: SKELMERSDALE AND HOLLAND SKELMERSDALE HALL LANE Skelmersdale Hall)

GV II

Farmhouse, now public house. Dated 1712 at 1st floor of rear; with large addition in later C19, now much altered. Coursed squared sandstone, the older portion with quoins, composition tile roofs. Irregular plan formed by double-depth double-fronted addition to north side of earlier U-plan house. The earlier portion, facing south, is 2 low storeys, 1:1:1 windows, with a chamfered plinth, C19 window openings with C20 glazing, a plain doorway in the re-entrant of the right-hand wing, and a datestone at 1st floor of the main range with raised lettering: H/ VA/ 1712. The C19 addition, facing north, is in Gothic style, 2 storeys and 3 windows, symmetrical, with a set-back centre between steeply gabled wings, and has a gabled porch in the centre with a 2-centred arched doorway and gable coping with kneelers, canted bay windows to the wings and cross-windows above, all these windows with margin panes; and side-wall chimneys. INTERIOR: completely remodelled, partition walls removed at ground floor, leaving only 2 chamfered beams in centre of older portion. The associated detached former farm buildings are not included.

Listing NGR: SD4865507416