Description

SKELMERSDALE

SD40NE SPENCERS LANE 783-1/1/27 (West side) 25/06/73 Whiteledge Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: SKELMERSDALE AND HOLLAND SPENCERS LANE, Upholland Whiteledge Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse. Dated 1693 in east gable; altered. Coursed sandstone rubble painted white, composition tile roof. T-plan formed by 2-unit main range with rear wing. Two low storeys and 2 windows, almost symmetrical; with a small gabled porch in the centre (added, and of brick painted white) and oblong windows on both floors, all boarded at time of inspection except that to the right at 1st floor which is a 3-light casement. Gable chimneys. Now has a brick buttress to the left corner, and a steel tie-rod wrapped round at 1st floor. The right-hand gable has one window on each floor, the lower now covered by metal shutters and the upper altered, and a recessed datestone inscribed "1693". Short rear wing with lean-to porch in angle and no other openings.

Listing NGR: SD4877305545

External Links

• Wikidata Q26579466

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)