Lower Balcony Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1973. A 19th century Farmhouse.
Lower Balcony Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gentle-threshold-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- 19th century
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
UP HOLLAND
SD50SW PIMBO LANE 783-1/4/59 (West side) 25/06/73 Lower Balcony Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: SKELMERSDALE AND HOLLAND PIMBO LANE Lower Balcony Farmhouse and gate piers)
GV II
Farmhouse. Probably mid C19. Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan with projected centre. Jacobean style. Two storeys and attic, 1:1:1 windows, the centre breaking forwards to form a 2-storey gabled porch; with a plinth, a moulded string-course and ridged gable copings with kneelers. The porch has a square-headed doorway with double-chamfered surround, board door with overlight, and a hoodmould with deep returned ends, and a 12-pane sashed window above; the flanking bays have 16-pane unhorned sashed windows; and all these windows have raised surrounds with double-chamfered reveals. Gable chimneys (that to right rebuilt in brick). The rear has similar fenestration, and a single-storey gabled porch in matching style. Forms a group with associated farm buildings round cobbled farmyard to rear: coach house and cart shed range on west side (qv), cottages (qv) and shippon range (qv) on east side, and barn at north end (qv).
Listing NGR: SD5080803539
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