Threshers

1. ALDHAM FORD STREET 5214 Threshers TL 92 NW 29/8 7.4.65 II* GV 2. Early C16 house framed in timber now rough cast and marked in external panels. Central front door with heavy wooden case and pediment on consoles. Range of 3 sash windows on both storeys and blind semi-circular fanlight above pediment. Roof ridged hipped peg-tiled with pilastered red brick chimney stack near centre of ridge. Eaves and troughing. Inside: the chimney stack and first floor to the hall are intrusions of the later C16 and the floor-joists have haunched tenons. The plan was originally on a T with cross-wing at north end. The south cross-wing was added during the later C16. The roof of the original cross-wing retains an octagonal crown-post, that of the hall was rebuilt during the C17 and the south wing has an Elizabethan braced side-purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TL9203826983