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Latitude: 53.606 / 53°36'21"N
Longitude: -2.7342 / 2°44'3"W
OS Eastings: 351517
OS Northings: 412415
OS Grid: SD515124
Mapcode National: GBR 9VBR.V2
Mapcode Global: WH86C.ZM5D
Plus Code: 9C5VJ748+C8
Entry Name: Higher Barn Farmhouse
Listing Date: 22 February 1967
Last Amended: 19 August 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1361886
English Heritage Legacy ID: 357879
ID on this website: 101361886
Location: High Moor, West Lancashire, WN6
County: Lancashire
District: West Lancashire
Town: West Lancashire
Civil Parish: Wrightington
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
WRIGHTINGTON HIGH MOOR LANE (off)
SD 51 SW
5/103 Higher Barn Farmhouse
22-2-1967 (formerly listed as Higher Barn Farmhouse
(including dated shippons))
II
House. Late C17 with earlier remains. Sandstone rubble with stone slate
roof covered by felt. East front has one bay on each side of 2-storey
gabled porch. Windows are rebated and chamfered with hoods. 5-light
window to left on ground floor and one of 4 lights to right. Mullions
removed from other windows. The porch has a window on both floors and a
blocked 2-light window under the apex. Door, with plain reveals, to left
of left-hand bay. Above the door lintel is an irregular joint in the
masonry. The left-hand part of the facade is blind. Chimneys behind ridge
in line with doorway, and projecting with offsets from right-hand gable.
Towards the right a 3rd chimney projects. It is of square plan, tall and
tapering and has an industrial appearance. At the rear is a projecting
wing. Interior: northern rooms on ground and 1st floors each have
chamfered stone fireplaces with canted heads. Ground-floor room has
ovolo-moulded spine beam. Between this room and the stair is a timber-
framed wall which has the lower part of a cruck truss visible on the
ground floor, with 2 blades and 2 tie-beams. The ground-floor fireplace
of the middle room is built within an earlier inglenook with fireplace
bressumer. On the 1st floor. the area above the fireplace is enclosed by
timber-framed partitions, presumably enclosing the site of the former
firehood. Set within one of these walls is a blocked C17 chamfered stone
fireplace. The ground and 1st floors each have a C17 internal door.
Listing NGR: SD5151712415
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