Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Thatch Cottage

WRENN ID
long-chancel-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Country
England
Date first listed
11 August 1972
Type
Farmhouse
Source
Historic England listing

Description

BURSCOUGH

SD41SE MOSS LANE 663-1/3/28 (West side) 11/08/72 Thatch Cottage

II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably later C17; remodelled and recently enlarged. Cruck frame with later brick cladding now rendered and painted white, restored thatched roof. Four bays, the 1st formerly a shippon. One-and-a-half storeys; all openings altered: doorway formerly at junction of 3rd and 4th bays, in line with chimney, but entrance now in 2nd bay, C20 windows inserted and chimney removed; renewed thatched roof with prominent oversailing eaves and 2 large dormers, replacing former thatched roof with eaves almost flush with walls and very low small windows just under eaves. (Photographic). C20 two-storey wing recently added to rear. INTERIOR: remains of three cruck trusses: one at the junction of the 1st and 2nd bays, with blades terminating above a collar and a kingpost mounted on this, and strongly curved windbraces; a similar truss at the gable end of the 4th bay, also with a king-post mounted on a collar, and one similar windbrace; and the front blade of another truss at the junction of the 2nd and 3rd bays, with a similar kingpost and similar wind-braces on both sides.

Listing NGR: SD4564513856

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