Description

WRIGHTINGTON BEACON VIEW
SD 50 NW Appley Bridge

10/89 Skull House
28-5-1981
II

House. Probably late C17 with earlier remains, altered C19 and C20.
Pebbledashed brick and stone with remains of cruck frame. Artificial
stone roof. North wall has central 2-storey gabled range which has a
recessed 6-light chamfered mullioned window. The other windows have plain
reveals. To its left is a shallow window and on the 1st floor a C20
casement. To the left and right are wings of one storey with attic. The
left-hand one has a door to the right of a window. The right-hand one has
a door to the left of its window. Chimneys to right of left-hand wing and
towards rear of ridge of middle range. Attached to the east gable wall of
the left-hand wing is a large water trough cut from a single block of
sandstone. Interior: left-hand wing contains cruck truss partly visible
in wall to left of doorway. The left-hand room has chamfered and stopped
common joists and an ovolo-moulded spine beam. The joists are supported
on a clamp pegged to the cruck tie-beam. At the junction between the
middle range and the right-hand wing there is said to be a second cruck
truss, now covered. The north room of the middle range has ovolo-moulded
main joists. The south room has 2 similar joists which are lodged on a
roll-moulded firehood bressumer. A C17 plank door opens into an extension
on the west side.

Listing NGR: SD5232409975

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26330504

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback