Description

FORMBY BARKFIELD LANE SD 20 NE (north side) 2/30 No. 8 (Garswood) II House. 1830 s. Stucco with slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays, with conservatory and peacock house to left. Stable wing to rear. End bays break forward under gables, with rusticated quoins; cornice and blocking course, gables have plain bargeboards. Windows have architraves and are sashed, no glazing bars; end bays have canted bay windows with casements to ground floor. 1st floor end-bay windows have enriched friezes cornices and cartouches above. 3rd-bay entrance has half-glazed doorcase and door. Cast iron. verandah extends between canted bay windows and has balustrade and 5 twisted columns supporting segmental arches, enriched spandrels, cornice and cresting. 2 brick stacks. Peacock house has gable, entrance with architrave and enriched pediment; flanking round-headed windows have archivolts, keys and pediments. Stable wing is roughcast with stucco dressings. Enriched frieze and cornice, timbered gablets over 1st floor windows and small turret with louvres and small spire.

Listing NGR: SD2909807764

External Links

• Wikidata Q26339869

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