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

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Description

Lower Balcony Farmhouse is a farmhouse likely built in the mid-19th century. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone and features a stone slate roof. The building has a double-depth, double-fronted plan with a prominent central section. Designed in the Jacobean style, it stands two storeys high with an attic and has a symmetrical arrangement of windows, with one window in the center and one on each side.

The central section projects forward and includes a two-storey gabled porch. This porch has a plinth, a moulded string-course, and ridged gable copings with kneelers. The porch features a square-headed doorway with a double-chamfered surround, a boarded door with an overlight, and a hoodmould with deep returned ends. Above the doorway, there is a 12-pane sashed window. The flanking bays each have 16-pane unhorned sashed windows, all of which have raised surrounds with double-chamfered reveals. The gable chimneys, including one on the right that has been rebuilt in brick, add to the building's character.

The rear of the farmhouse has similar window arrangements and includes a single-storey gabled porch that matches the front. The farmhouse is part of a group of associated farm buildings surrounding a cobbled farmyard at the rear, which includes a coach house and cart shed range on the west side, cottages and a shippon range on the east side, and a barn at the north end.

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