Description

MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM

SD4563 SLYNE ROAD, Torrisholme
939-1/6/61 No.12
06/04/79 Park House and attached barn

II

House and barn. Probably early C19. House rendered with slate
roof. 2 storeys. 2 bays. Windows are sashed in painted plain
stone surrounds. Door, between bays, has similar surround.
Gable chimneys. At the left the barn projects forwards and the
junction with the house is overlapped by a single-storey
lean-to porch with a cement-rendered roof. The rear wall of
the house slobbered rubble and contains a re-used C17
chamfered window surround, and a narrow 12-pane stair window
with plain reveals. The barn is of white-painted rubble and
cobbles with a slate roof. It has a segmental archway above
timber doors. To the left is an outshut containing a shippon
or stables. To the right is a window with plain reveals. A
chimney rises from the front wall in line with the left-hand
wall of the lean-to porch. Interiors: house not fully
inspected. Left-hand ground-floor room contains boxed axial
beams. Barn is of 5 bays with sawn softwood tie-beam trusses

Listing NGR: SD4568863754

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502390

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