Description

SD 52SW LEYLAND LEYLAND LANE

8/38 Nos. 376, 378, 380 26.7.1951 (Peacock Hall)

- II

House, dated 1626, now 3 dwellings. Stone plinth and quoins, handmade brick, stone slate roof. U-shaped plan with projecting wings, and rear extension to middle bay. Two storeys; symmetrical except for off-centre doorway and chimney stack. Facade of flanking gabled crosswings on plinth of 3 courses of very large rectangular stone blocks, with similarly large but unequal stone quoins; very long brick hoodmoulds on each floor, the windows beneath them all variously altered. Recessed centre of 2 bays has similar hoodmoulds and windows on each floor; door on right with large stone jambs and lintel with datestone above lettered I:S 1626 Ridge chimney stack in line with door has prominent brick band of 5 courses. Return wall of left wing (No.380) has very prominent external chimney stack with large stone quoins, door at ground floor and hoodmould at 1st floor (no window). Rear wall of this wing contains, at 1st floor a blocked 5-light window with diamond section wooden mullions and a blocked attic window with chamfered brick jambs, both with hoodmoulds; and No.378 has a 2-storey rear extension with stone quoins, a brick hoodmould at ground floor, a blocked attic window with hoodmould, and a 2-light brick mullioned window with leaded lights in the side wall. Interior: pairs of quarter-round moulded bridging beams on both floors of each part; large chimney breast bressummers in Nos.376 and 378 with substantial brick smoke hood above; purlin-type roof: trusses have large principals, raking struts, and very large trenched purlins.

Listing NGR: SD5276921533

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)