Latitude: 53.6184 / 53°37'6"N
Longitude: -2.8232 / 2°49'23"W
OS Eastings: 345645
OS Northings: 413856
OS Grid: SD456138
Mapcode National: GBR 8VQL.LM
Mapcode Global: WH86B.L9VW
Plus Code: 9C5VJ59G+9P
Entry Name: Thatch Cottage
Listing Date: 11 August 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1196635
English Heritage Legacy ID: 386268
ID on this website: 101196635
Location: West Lancashire, L40
County: Lancashire
District: West Lancashire
Civil Parish: Burscough
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Burscough Bridge St John
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Cottage Thatched cottage
BURSCOUGH
SD41SE MOSS LANE 663-1/3/28 (West side) 11/08/72 Thatch Cottage
II
Farmhouse, now house. Probably later C17; remodelled and recently enlarged. Cruck frame with later brick cladding now rendered and painted white, restored thatched roof. Four bays, the 1st formerly a shippon. One-and-a-half storeys; all openings altered: doorway formerly at junction of 3rd and 4th bays, in line with chimney, but entrance now in 2nd bay, C20 windows inserted and chimney removed; renewed thatched roof with prominent oversailing eaves and 2 large dormers, replacing former thatched roof with eaves almost flush with walls and very low small windows just under eaves. (Photographic). C20 two-storey wing recently added to rear. INTERIOR: remains of three cruck trusses: one at the junction of the 1st and 2nd bays, with blades terminating above a collar and a kingpost mounted on this, and strongly curved windbraces; a similar truss at the gable end of the 4th bay, also with a king-post mounted on a collar, and one similar windbrace; and the front blade of another truss at the junction of the 2nd and 3rd bays, with a similar kingpost and similar wind-braces on both sides.
Listing NGR: SD4564513856
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