Description

BURSCOUGH

SD41SW LIVERPOOL ROAD SOUTH 663-1/2/11 (North West side) No.143 Yew Tree House

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. c.1800, extended c.1900, and altered. Handmade brown brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan plus added kitchen wing to rear. Two storeys and attic, 2 windows, almost symmetrical; 2 large windows on each floor, offset slightly left of centre, all with raised sills and wedge lintels and now with 20-pane top-hung casements. Gable chimneys, that to the left extruded. The right-hand gable wall has a round-headed doorway with an open-pedimented wooden architrave including fluted pilasters and dentilled lintel, and a fanlight with delicate radiating tracery. INTERIOR: lateral entrance hall with semi-elliptical archway, leading to a doglegged staircase with open string, scrolled brackets, stick balusters and a mahogany handrail wreathed at the foot. Forms group with No.172 opposite (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4387510987

External Links

• Wikidata Q26579159

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