We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 53.7021 / 53°42'7"N
Longitude: -2.832 / 2°49'55"W
OS Eastings: 345173
OS Northings: 423176
OS Grid: SD451231
Mapcode National: GBR 8TNM.PM
Mapcode Global: WH85Y.G6PQ
Plus Code: 9C5VP529+V6
Entry Name: Ferry House
Listing Date: 2 December 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1073101
English Heritage Legacy ID: 357705
ID on this website: 101073101
Location: Becconsall, West Lancashire, PR4
County: Lancashire
District: West Lancashire
Civil Parish: Hesketh-with-Becconsall
Built-Up Area: Tarleton
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Hesketh with Becconsall All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: House
HESKETH WITH BECCONSALL LANE SD 42 SE BECCONSALL 4/3 Ferry House - GV II Ferryman's house, now house. Early C18, altered. Mostly handmade brick, with some repairs in modern brick, roof of slate with stone slate on rear slope. T-plan: 2 bays with rear stair turret (modern addition to rear of 2nd bay). Two storeys, walls raised and partly rebuilt in C20; doorway offset slightly right of centre, with pegged wooden surround, gauged brick segmental head, board door; 2 cross window casements on each floor, all with segmental heads (glazing renewed); left gable wall has one similar window on each floor, the lower with original glazing bars. Right hand gable wall has segmental-headed window at ground floor, modern continuation to rear. Chimney at right gable; large external chimney stack to rear of 1st bay (parlour). Rear has full-height gabled stair turret with segmental-headed casement stairlight, 2 little windows at ground floor of right re-entrant. Interior: housepart in 2nd bay, with direct entry; 1st bay formerly partitioned into pantry in front and parlour in rear, now all one room, with a stop-chamfered beam in the parlour end; unusually fine staircase for a house of this size: doglegged, with moulded string, rectangular newels, turned balusters, and moulded handrail. History: built to house ferryman who served crossing of River Douglas on old road from Becconsall to Much Hoole.
Listing NGR: SD4517323176
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings