UPPER GORE FARMHOUSE

UPPER GORE FARMHOUSE, BELLS LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073021
Date first listed:: 03-May-1990
List Entry Name:: UPPER GORE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: UPPER GORE FARMHOUSE, BELLS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073021
Date first listed:: 03-May-1990
List Entry Name:: UPPER GORE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: UPPER GORE FARMHOUSE, BELLS LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: UPPER GORE FARMHOUSE, BELLS LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Altcar
National Grid Reference:: SD 36206 03329

Details

SD 30 SE GREAT ALTCAR BELLS LANE

12/4 Upper Gore Farmhouse

II

Former farmhouse. Late C17 (probably 1676, re-used datestone) with C18 alterations, extensively renovated and altered in part, 1990. Earlier work in coursed gray rubble, the rest brick in English garden wallbond, all on a stone plinth, under Welsh slate roof. T-plan overall. The development of the house is not clear. The rear wing has 3 rooms. The 2 rooms furthest from the front range (in stone with C17 detailing) share a large central fireplace and is quoined to all corners. This is an unusual plan for a house of this status and it is likely that it abutted a timber-framed structure now replaced in brick but sharing the same stone plinth. The front range, although rebuilt, retains its 3-room, cross-passage plan, the passage now containing late C18 stairs, exceptionally wide. Front range. Irregular, 3 windows, all under segmental heads. 3-light casements to 1st, 2 and 3-light casements to ground floor. Off-centre doorway under slate pentice. Left-hand end wall rebuilt in brick; right return with 3-light casement to each floor. Rear of right-hand room with 1990 inserted windows; a rear external stack has been removed. Brick part of rear wing with porch in angle re-using C17 doorway (re-set lintel : RGK 1676). Stone section : elevation to farmyard, 1st floor with 2-3 light windows with chamfered and rebated surrounds and diamond mullions (one of them in red sandstone) the position of a small chamfered former stair light has been removed. Ground-floor with 2 replaced windows and doorway to left. End wall with similar C17 windows, of 3 lights to ground and 1st floor (under hood moulds) both deeply rebated, and a plainer 2-light mullioned window lighting attic. Rear with one 3-light mullioned window to both floors, and a single-light window with chamfered surround in addition to 1st floor.

Interior: Boxed ceiling beams. Some internal partitions removed. Roof, although considerably altered, retains C17 trusses to rear and one full cruck truss (retained from the older building) to the front range. The house and the farmbuildings (the latter much rebuilt although retaining C17 features and a 1694 datestone) enclose a good cobbled yard. I

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SD 30 SE GREAT ALTCAR BELLS LANE Upper Gore 12/4 Farmhouse

II

Former farmhouse. Late C17 (probably 1676, re-used datestone) with C18 altera- tions. Earlier work in coursed gray rubble, the rest brick in English garden wallbond, all on a stone plinth, under Welsh slate roof. T-plan overall. The development of the house is not clear. The rear wing has 3 rooms. The 2 rooms furtherest from the front range (in stone with C17 detailing) share a large central fireplace and is quoined to all corners. This is an unusual plan for a house of this status and it is likely that it abutted a timber-framed structure now replaced in brick but sharing the same stone plinth. The front range, although rebuilt, retains its 3-room, cross-passage plan, the passage now containing late C18 stairs, exceptionally wide. Front range. Irregular, 3 windows, all under segmental heads. 3-light casements to 1st, 2 and 3-light casements to ground floor. Off-centre doorway under slate pentice. Left-hand end wall rebuilt in brick; right return with 3-light casement to each floor. Rear of right-hand room with large external stack with set-offs. Brick part of rear wing with porch in angle re-using C17 doorway (re-set lintel : RGK 1676). Stone section : elevation to farmyard, 1st floor with 2-3 light windows with chamfered and rebated surrounds and diamond mullions (one of them in red sandstone) with small chamfered former stair light between. Ground-floor with 2 replaced windows (one under segmental head) and doorway to left. End wall with similar C17 windows, of 3 lights to ground and 1st floor (under hood moulds) both deeply rebated, and a plainer 2-light mullioned window lighting attic. Rear with one 3-light mullioned window to both floors, and a single-light window with chamfered surround in addition to 1st floor. Wide doorway with half-glazed door set close to end wall.

Interior: much of interest probably concealed under later cladding. Boxed ceiling beams. Roof, although considerably altered, retains C17 trusses to rear and one large truss (retained from the older building) to the front range. The house and the farmbuildings (the latter much rebuilt although retaining C17 features and a 1694 datestone) enclose a good cobbled yard.

Listing NGR: SD3620603329

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Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.