Description

SD 51 NE CHARNOCK RICHARD DELPH LANE

5/21 Lower House Farmhouse
17.4.1967
- II*

Farmhouse, dated 1654, now house. Brick with stone plinth, quoins and
dressings; concrete tile roof with one chimney on the ridge, another
behind ridge at right end. Three-bay baffle-entry plan with short
outshut to rear of 3rd and part of 2nd bay. Two storeys. Two-storey
gabled porch at junction of 1st and 2nd bays has moulded stone entrance
with Tudor arched lintel; a hoodmould to the lintel and above this a
datestone in arched frame with worn lettering: E ;
H C
1654

on 3 sides at 1st floor level are 3-light windows with segmental
relieving arches, and on apex of gable is a lozenge pattern of headers.
To the left is one window on each floor, to the right 2 windows each
floor, all originally 6-lights with chamfered brick mullions and unusual
paired segmental relieving arches, but all ground floor windows are now
casements and those to the right have stone heads. Right gable wall has
4 windows, 3 with single segmental relieving arches and 2 of these with
2 chamfered brick mullions. Windows in rear wall have brick hoodmoulds,
some have chamfered brick mullions; back door to ist bay has moulded stone
jambs and arched lintel with a dripstone over it. Ends of 2 inglenook
bressummers are exposed. Interior: unusually complete survival of
features of the period including back-to-back inglenook hearths with
bressummers, beams with depressed ¼-round moulding and stops, a spiral
newel staircase (in outshut) and a quarter-turn staircase in kitchen;
original board doors; cross-corner parlour fireplace. History: belonged
to estate of Charnocks of Astley; building in Commonwealth period and use
of brick on site adjoining quarry are unusual.

Listing NGR: SD5593716268

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531038

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)