Description

SD 53 NE GOOSNARGH INGLEWHITE ROAD

5/66 Fir Trees Farmhouse
11.11.1966
II

Farmhouse, C17, altered. Handmade brick (front roughcast), slate roof with
brick chimney stack. Three-bay baffle-entry plan, with projecting
porch-cum-stairturret in line with chimneystack at junction of 2nd and 3rd
bays. Two storeys; continuous dripcourse carried round porch; 2-storey gabled
porch has doorway offset left with hollow-moulded stone surround including
large shaped lintel (no lettering), a peep window on each floor of left side;
3 windows on each floor, all horizontal rectangular, altered as 3-light
casements. Barn continuing to left is not included in the item. Rear of less
interest. Interior: housepart in 2nd bay and former kitchen in 3rd bay have
large back-to-back inglenook fireplaces with chamfered bressummers, and
matching beams with cyma stops; dogleg staircase with closed string and
moulded handrail (balusters panelled over).

Listing NGR: SD5672839839

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26603858

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