Description

ECCLESTON TOWNGATE
SD 51 NW
9/108 Farmers Arms Inn with buildings
- attached including No. 101
GV II

Public house, with former stables, cottage, etc; mid C18, with additions later
C18. Handmade brick painted white, slate roof; and handmade brick with stone
slate roofs. Farmers Arms is double-depth 2-bay plan; 2 storeys, almost
symmetrical, with gable chimneys; 2-course band; board door offset slightly
right of centre, 2 square sashed windows on each floor, all these openings
with gauged brick heads and those at ground floor segmental-headed; painted
sign on brackets in centre of 1st floor. To the right on lower level a short
2-storey continuation with blocked doorway at the junction and one window on
each floor, like the others. Interior of Farmers Arms: 4-room plan altered
(partition in right-hand side removed); one fielded panel door. To the left,
stable and cottages consist of 3 elements in 3 builds; all altered but not
recently: stable adjoining Farmers Arms, cottage adjoining this slightly
canted back, and set back and further canted, the gable end of a receding wing
probably formerly a pair of cottages. Stable is one bay, 2 storeys, has door
at junction with Farmers Arms and former loading door to loft altered as a
6-pane sliding sash window; canted part adjoining on left is one bay, 2
slightly lower storeys, has a wide segmental head to a former wagon door and a
20-pane sash below and another above; gable of No.101 to left has a panelled
door to the right and one 20-pane sash in the centre of each floor (upper
altered slightly) and its left return wall has a blocked former door near the
front corner, a damaged modern porch left of centre and two 4-pane sashes
above. This part derelict at time of survey (1985).

Listing NGR: SD5174417309

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26328204

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)