Longridge Farmhouse And Outbuilding

Longridge Farmhouse and outbuilding, now a garage, dates back to 1653, though it may have earlier origins. It was built for George and Elizabeth Dodsworth. The building is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a 1:1:1 bay arrangement, featuring a central two-storey projecting gabled porch and a two-storey outshut to the rear. The porch has an old board door within a quoined surround with a moulded arris and a triangular head, and above the door is the inscription "GED 1653". A string course runs along the right return of the porch, and there is a two-light double-chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould above. Each floor of the porch's right return has a chamfered round-headed single-light window. Inside the porch, a twentieth-century part-glazed door is set within a surround with a moulded arris and a triangular head, and on the sunken spandrels are ill-cut letters "C G" and "E" and the number "1653" above. On the ground floor of the house, from left, are a chamfered round-headed fire window, a six-light double-chamfered mullion window with a central king mullion and hoodmould, and, to the right of the porch, a five-light double-chamfered mullion window with a continuous dripmould. The first floor has four-light double-chamfered mullion windows. Stacks are located at the ends of the building and to the right of the porch. It appears that the house originally extended one bay further to the left, but this section has now been converted into a garage with a loft above. The right jamb of the garage opening is formed from a chamfered quoined doorway. The string course, now broken, likely continued from the main house. Internally, to the left, in the houseplace, are large moulded beams and joists, and a chamfered, voussoired, segmental pointed-arch fireplace with a salt box and beehive oven in the rear wall, along with a chamfered round-arched doorway to its right. A chamfered straight-headed doorway leads to the kitchen, which may be older. All three openings have stop-chamfered bases at the same level; the king mullion of a window is chamfered off at its lower edge. A chamfered triangular-headed doorway provides access to a parlour, which has a chamfered triangular-headed fireplace and formerly a plaster frieze. In the garage, part of a blocked mullion window remains in the rear wall, and to the right, corbels formerly supported first-floor beams.