BANK HALL AND BANK HALL FARMHOUSE

BANK HALL AND BANK HALL FARMHOUSE, GARSTANG ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1164294
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: BANK HALL AND BANK HALL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BANK HALL AND BANK HALL FARMHOUSE, GARSTANG ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1164294
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: BANK HALL AND BANK HALL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BANK HALL AND BANK HALL FARMHOUSE, GARSTANG ROAD

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:: BANK HALL AND BANK HALL FARMHOUSE, GARSTANG ROAD

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Broughton
National Grid Reference:: SD5243134556

Details

SD 53 SW 7/24

BROUGHTON (off) GARSTANG ROAD Bank Hall and Bank Hall Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse or manor house, probably late medieval, in 2 builds, partitioned probably in early C17, subsequently much altered, now house and farmhouse. Brick with stone dressings (farmhouse to right rendered and painted white), slate roof, enclosing original timber framing. T-plan: front range of 6 bays (the first 2 being a late addition), with rear extension to present 3rd bay. Two storeys; full-height flat-roofed projection to 4th bay, doorway to 2nd bay, altered doorway to 5th bay, otherwise each floor of each bay has a sashed window with glazing bars, stone head and sill (16 and 20 panes to the left and 12 and 9 panes to the right of the junction). The main features of special interest are visible only in the interior, the left half (Bank Hall) containing elements of late medieval timber framing which probably continue in the right half (Bank Hall Farmhouse): a full closed cruck truss in the rear wall, and at right angles to this, in the junction between the 2 dwellings, parts of the gable wall of a 2-storey box-framed addition. The cruck truss, which rises to the full height of the building (though the apex has been severed) has a low tie-beam, remains of a wallpost notched into the lower part of the left blade and of doorheads close to both blades, and at attic level trenches for purlins and windbraces. The framing of the partition wall at ground floor consists of a rail below wallplate level tenoned into a central post (the upper part of which supports an inserted ceiling beam) and 3 other posts forming 2 doorways with Tudor-arched heads undercut in the rail (one abutting the cruck truss, the other c,1½ metres from the present front wall); the framing at 1st floor and visible in the roof space, set back slightly from the plane of that at ground floor, belongs to the adjoining building, and consists (at lst floor) of a jowelled wallpost c.1½ metres from the present front wall with a straight brace rising to another post, and a rail linking these to a 3rd post; and (at attic level) a tie-beam and the feet of both principals of a roof truss (the remainder concealed). This structure is assumed to continue into Bank Hall Farmhouse (see Reference below), but its extent and nature are not known because access was denied. The other feature of interest in Bank Hall is a massive inglenook fireplace with stone hecks supporting a raised timber bressummer, and containing an C18 stone fireplace with carved lintel, to the rear of which is another fireplace with remains of a bread oven. History: owned by the Singleton family of Brockholes in early C16. (References: VCH Lancs. and George Jackson Broughton Roundabout (n.d.) pp. 7-10 esp. p.9: "The interior of both parts ... retains its low beamed ceilings").

Listing NGR: SD5243134556

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Legacy System number:: 185871
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911)
Jackson, G, Broughton Roundabout7-10

Legal

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