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Latitude: 53.6194 / 53°37'9"N
Longitude: -2.7124 / 2°42'44"W
OS Eastings: 352971
OS Northings: 413885
OS Grid: SD529138
Mapcode National: GBR 9VHL.K8
Mapcode Global: WH86D.99M4
Plus Code: 9C5VJ79Q+Q2
Entry Name: Martin House Farmhouse
Listing Date: 30 January 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1317802
English Heritage Legacy ID: 184383
ID on this website: 101317802
Location: Wrightington Bar, Chorley, Lancashire, WN6
County: Lancashire
District: Chorley
Civil Parish: Heskin
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Wrightington with Heskin St James the Great
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Farmhouse
HESKIN CHURCH LANE (off) SD 51 SE Wrightington 13/129 Martin House Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Later C17, windows altered in C18 or C19. Coursed sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof. Two-bay end-baffle-entry plan with continuous rear outshut, and attached granary wing. Two storey front, single-storey rear under catslide roof; at left end of front in line with chimney at left gable is a porch with carried-down (lean-to) roof, chamfered Tudor-arched outer doorway, and boarded inner door; to the right are 2 square windows on each floor, with splayed stone heads. Left gable wall has a 2-light sliding sash at ground floor, similar 3-light window above; right gable wall has an external brick chimney stack, a blocked mullioned window at 1st floor partly covered by this, a similar blocked attic window, and a 3-light chamfered mullion window towards the rear of the 1st floor; an attached lean-to washhouse partly covers this wall. Rear has a 2-light sliding sash to the outshut of the 2nd bay, a small 2-light window under the eaves in the centre, and a lean-to porch in the angle with the granary. Granary overlapping rear left corner is single-bay, 2 storeys, has steps up the rear gable to the loft door, a 3-light sliding sash in the outer side and another in the front gable, an altered window above. Interior: not inspected, but owner describes inglenook with cambered bressumer (rounded moulding), similar beams, a dog-leg staircase, and timber-framed wattle-and-daub partition walls.
Listing NGR: SD5297113885
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