Description

WRIGHTINGTON OLD WASH LANE (off) SD 51 SW 5/109 South Tunley Farmhouse 19-11-1951 GV II

House. 1675, altered C19. Sandstone rubble with concrete tile roof. Half- H plan. 2 storeys. Continuous plinth. Quoins show some tooling of C19 type. Cross-wings are each of one bay and have windows of 2 lights with projecting moulded stone surrounds and flat-faced mullions. Recessed centre has a 3-light mullioned window of C18 type on each floor. Redder sandstone around these windows suggests rebuilding. To the right is a single-storey gabled porch which has a chamfered doorway with canted head. Above the doorway is a stone inscribed: '1675 RHM'. Chimneys, with brick caps, in line with doorway and on ridge of left-hand (south-west) cross-wing. The latter has 2 shafts linked by bricks placed diagonally. Interior: central room has firehood bressumer and a heck forming a baffle entry. The 2 axial beams have quarter-round mouldings. The front room of the left-hand cross-wing contains some C17 panelling with scribed mouldings, including a fireplace surround inscribed: 'R-M 1676'. Other rooms not examined.

Listing NGR: SD5349812203

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey