The Great House

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SO 75 SE 2/51

LEIGH CP Dingle Road The Great House

(Formerly listed as Greathouse Farmhouse, BROCKAMIN)

29.7.59

II House. Early C18. Brick in Flemish bond with limestone dressings and hipped tile roof. A symmetrical composition of two storeys with attic and five bays. The outer quoins, and the quoin strips which frame the central bay, have broken dentilled cornices. The windows are boxed sashes with glazing bars, stone sills, and segmental brick heads with carved keystones. The central window on the first floor has a round head with Gothick glazing, and an architrave with moulded imposts and carved apron. The keystone is carved with a wheatsheaf. At attic level the parapet has blind recesses with segmental heads, keystones, and stone sills which align with the broken cornice. In the central bay there is an oculus and the parapet coping is curved to resemble an open segmental pediment. The early C19 doorway has a round head with Gothick fanlight and a timber doorcase and an open pediment on console brackets. Chimneys to left and right towards rear.

Interior: early C19 stair rises on three sides of an open well and has stick balusters and turned newels. Blocked inglenook in right-hand rear room. Rear hall has doorway set within blocked round arch with mask keystone.

Listing NGR: SO7704253485