End Cottage Old Farm

End Cottage Old Farm is a farmhouse dated 1723, now divided into two separate properties: No. 28 (Old Farm) and No. 30 (End Cottage). The building is constructed of brick, which is whitewashed, and features a slate roof. Originally, it had a three-unit baffle-entry plan, with a gable chimney stack on the left and an axial chimney stack located between the second and third bays. The third bay is now part of No. 30, which is adjacent.

The structure has two storeys. No. 28 has a door with a wooden canopy on its right side and two casement windows on each floor, all featuring glazing bars, stone sills, and slightly arched brick heads. These windows now have wooden shutters. Above the door is a square datestone inscribed with the initials P, believed to represent H G 1723, which are thought to belong to Henry Porter, as noted in J. Porter’s History of the Fylde from 1876.

The rear wall includes a three-light stair window with wooden mullions. Inside, the baffle-entry features a former opening to the third bay that is now blocked, along with a heck that has a glazed peephole. The house part contains two chamfered and stopped bridging beams, a wide hearth with a crude bressumer made of light scantling, and a dog-leg staircase against the rear wall. No. 30 is included in the listing because the adjoining bay has bridging beams that match those of No. 28, with scarf-joints near the chimney breast indicating a former hearth bressumer, as well as an internal window in what was once an outer gable wall.