Sales's Farmhouse With Attached Barn

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SD 81 SW RAMSBOTTOM SALES'S LANE 12/140 Sales's Farmhouse with attached 9.8.1966 barn

- II

Farmhouse and barn under one roof, dated 1679 on re-cut lintel of doorway of lean-to at right end. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, stone slate roof with brick chimney close to right gable. L-shaped plan: house of 2-bay end-baffle-entry type with extension to rear of 2nd bay, and 3-bay barn continued to left. Two storeys, walls raised 3 or 4 courses, rear extension separately roofed; original entrance in right return wall now covered by single-storey lean-to; present entrance by inserted door to 1st bay. Left of this a chamfered mullion window with hoodmould (originally 4 lights, altered, now lacking 2 mullions), right of it a chamfered mullion 4-light window and a 2-light firewindow with linked hoodmoulds, both lacking one mullion; 1st floor has 2 chamfered flush mullion windows, both 3-lights, altered, lacking one mullion. At right end lean-to (replacing original porch) has doorway with re-cut lintel inscribed ":IS : 1679:", and extension partly covered by this has plain doorway and remains of one flush mullion window on each floor.

Interior: 2nd bay has inglenook fireplace with very large crudely chamfered bressumer, heck to original doorway on the left, 2 chamfered beams. History: Thomas Sale, Quaker, imprisoned 1665 (Bury Guardian 4.9.1926, and 21 and 28.10, 4.11.1933). (NB plan-type closely resembling Ridshaw Farmhouse, Bury Old Road, qv).

Listing NGR: SD8178514971

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1091 IOE Records taken by Pamela Jackson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Ms Pamela Jackson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project