Description

BRETHERTON SOUTH ROAD
SD 42 SE
3/30 Church House Farmhouse
22.10.52
GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1698 on porch, altered. Colour-washed brick with
stone quoins at ground floor, stone slate roof. Three-bay baffle-entry plan
with projecting porch, single-storey rear extension to 3rd bay. Two storeys;
plinth, 2-course band; 2-storey gabled porch in line with ridge chimney at
junction of 2nd and 3rd bays has segmental-headed doorway, square datestone
above the band lettered in relief

JOHN .
MARY. H
ESKETH
1698

segmental-headed 2-light window at 1st floor, and triangular-headed
peepwindows in the sides; to the left, 2 segmental-headed 2-light windows on
each floor and to the right a 2-light casement at ground floor and altered
3-light window above. Rear has segmental-headed windows, mostly altered.
Interior: altered, but housepart in middle bay has inglenook with heck and
bressummer, this and 2 longitudinal beams with stopped 1/4-round moulding; one
similar beam in service end in 1st bay.

Listing NGR: SD4764920365

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595760

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings