Description

HESKETH WITH BECCONSALL LANE
SD 42 SE BECCONSALL

4/3 Ferry House
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GV II
Ferryman's house, now house. Early C18, altered. Mostly handmade brick,
with some repairs in modern brick, roof of slate with stone slate on rear
slope. T-plan: 2 bays with rear stair turret (modern addition to rear of
2nd bay). Two storeys, walls raised and partly rebuilt in C20; doorway
offset slightly right of centre, with pegged wooden surround, gauged brick
segmental head, board door; 2 cross window casements on each floor, all
with segmental heads (glazing renewed); left gable wall has one similar
window on each floor, the lower with original glazing bars. Right hand
gable wall has segmental-headed window at ground floor, modern continuation
to rear. Chimney at right gable; large external chimney stack to rear of
1st bay (parlour). Rear has full-height gabled stair turret with
segmental-headed casement stairlight, 2 little windows at ground floor of
right re-entrant. Interior: housepart in 2nd bay, with direct entry; 1st
bay formerly partitioned into pantry in front and parlour in rear, now all
one room, with a stop-chamfered beam in the parlour end; unusually fine
staircase for a house of this size: doglegged, with moulded string,
rectangular newels, turned balusters, and moulded handrail. History: built
to house ferryman who served crossing of River Douglas on old road from
Becconsall to Much Hoole.

Listing NGR: SD4517323176

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26330703

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)