Description

SD 56 NW HALTON-WITH-AUGHTON GREEN LANE

7/92 Halton Green East Farmhouse
4. 10. 1967
II*

House, early C17th with late C17th rear wing,altered C20th. Sandstone
rubble with stone slate roof. 2-unit with central entrance, now T-plan.
2 storeys with attic. Windows are of 2 main types: those of the early
C17th have wooden mullions set back in openings with plain reveals and
chamfered stone lintels; those of the late C17th are rebated and chamfered
with stone mullions. Doorway and cellar window have architraves. Front
facade has several windows of the 2nd type, some botched to a stair
window near the centre. At the left-hand side on the 1st floor is one
of the 1st type. Open wooden porch with balusters and round head, probably
early C20th. Left-hand gable has chamfered mullioned windows of 3 and 2
lights, one in place of a window of the 1st type, as is the modern attic
casement. Right-hand gable has projecting stack with offsets and 4 windows
of the 2nd type, 2 lighting the attic. Rear wing has C20th front wall in
keeping, facing the garden, but with a porch to the right with gable
copings and kneeler of C18th type and some re-used C17th dressings. Right-
hand gable wall of wing has a chamfered door surround on the 1st floor, now
blocked to form a window. Back wall, facing the road, has windows of the
2nd type, to the ground floor of 2, 1, 1, and 3 lights; to the 1st floor 2
2-light windows. Interior of the main block has an early C17th roof of 3
trusses with king posts rising from high collars and with curved braces to
the ridge, a timber-framed internal wall with ogee doorhead, and a window
of the 1st type blocked by a C20th wall. In the ground-floor room on the
right is a bolection-moulded stone fireplace of c.1700. Rear wing has
bressumer and heck post, but within this is a fireplace of c.1700 with
fluted pilasters and moulded cornice. Lintel has 2 raised and fielded
panels flanking a central floral motif. Saxon cross fragment in internal
wall of porch.

Listing NGR: SD5160965366

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531387

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