Description

WALTON SK36NW WELL LANE 1264-0/5/135 (North side (off)) Loads House Farmhouse, attached outbuildings and boundary walls

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Farmhouse and attached ranges of outbuildings. Dated 1713, with C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Coursed squared Coal Measures Sandstone with ashlar dressings, quoins, plain gables, ashlar ridge and gable stacks, with moulded cornices and semicircular chimney cappings to two stacks. Stone slated roofs. L-plan house, with attached farm outbuildings beneath continuous roof extending to the east and west sides of the house. South elevation has three-bay house of two storeys, with an added bay at the west end formed out of the attached outbuilding. Central doorway with massive lintel and quoined surround, and plain planked door beneath later canopy. To the east, stacked 3-light flush mullioned windos with casement frames. Further to the east, another stacked pair of 3-light mullioned windows. To the west of the doorway an inserted doorway, enclosed by C20 half-glazed flat-roofed porch, and above, a 3-light flush-mullioned window. To the west of the inserted door, a former doorway with a massive surround, now adapted to form a window, with a C20 frame with a top-hung light. Above, a small single light with a C20 frame. Extending to the west is an attached single-storey outbuilding of four bays, each bay with a quoined surround to its doorway, and substantial lintels. Plain planked stable doors. Extending to the east, an attached two-storey outbuilding with two doorways of different widths and heights, each with stone-framed surrounds and planked doors. The front of the house is enclosed by a low masonry wall with shallow saddleback copings and surmounted by spear-headed railings which incorporate low square gatepiers with depressed pyramidal caps, and an iron gate with spear-headed railings. Taller added wall encloses inserted doorway and added west bay. Rear elevation with two-bay cross-wing, having on the east elevation stacked pairs of two-light flush mullioned windows, the northernmost pair at a higher level than the southern pair which serve a staircase. The west elevation has a single bay offshut beneath a catslide roof, with a single-light C18 window to the east of the cross-wing, a single sash window, each sash divided into 2 panes. To the west of the cross-wing, a 2-light flush mullioned window, and a single-light C17 window now blocked. The plain window openings to remaining part of outbuilding, together with a single quoined doorway with plank door.

Listing NGR: SK3173469785

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