Description

BRETHERTON SOUTH ROAD
SD 42 SE
3/32 Martinside Farmhouse (Formerly
17.4.67 listed as Martindale's
Farmhouse)
- II

Farmhouse now house. Dated 1718 but probably earlier, altered. Handmade
brick with some diaper in blue brick headers, stone slate roof. L-plan:
2-bay main range with projecting porch-wing at right hand side. Two storeys;
brick plinth; entrance in re-entrant wall of wing by doorway with roll-moulded
timber doorcase with cambered lintel, a 2-light -sliding sash under the eaves
above; gable of wing has a segmental-headed 3-light sliding sash offset to
right at ground floor, a saw-tooth band over this, at 1st floor a diaper band
making 3 large hearts, an inserted window above breaking into the right hand
end of this feature, and in the gable a datestone lettered in relief H
H E;
1718
return wall has triangular-headed peepwindow. Main range has 3 small
horizontal-rectangular windows at ground floor, and at 1st floor 2 low 4-light
casements on different levels, that on the left with a brick label continued
to right with 2 step-ups, the 2nd over a small triangular-headed window.
Right gable wall has inter alia a small 1st floor window of 2 arched lights
with a brick mullion and a label; rear has one horizontal rectangular window
at ground floor and 3 above, all with run-out heads and sills, but is
otherwise altered. Interior: altered by removal of partition walls, but
retains very large inglenook bressummer and 2 longitudinal beams with stopped
1/4-round moulding, and in the former service end stop-chamfered beams on a
lower level.

Listing NGR: SD4757520344

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456843

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)