Description

SD 52SW LEYLAND LEYLAND LANE

8/40 Nos. 468 and 470
- (Firs Farmhouse)
- II

Farmhouse, C17 with later alteration and additions. Handmade brick,
stone plinth, stone dressings, slate roofs. L-shaped plan: 2-bay front
range with receding 2-bay crosswing (which has stone plinth and may be
earlier); C19 addition in re-entrant at rear. Two storeys with attic to
left hand wing; plain doorway at joint between the 2 elements; two
3-light stone mullion windows on each floor to right, but to left one
sash window to each floor, that to ground floor with all glazing bars, and
a square attic opening now covered with board painted as window. Two
ridge chimneys, one gable chimney to rear of wing. Left hand return wall
has plain door, one ground floor sash window breaking a brick hoodmould,
two sash windows above; all windows in wing have stone sills and splayed
stone heads; under gutter is timber wallplate. Interior: pairs of ovolo-
moulded bridging beams in 3 ground floor rooms and 2 rooms above; 1st
floor has crosswalls and partitions of timber framing with clamstaff and
daub infill.

Listing NGR: SD5270821116

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505661

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)