JOHNSON'S FARMHOUSE

JOHNSON'S FARMHOUSE, LAFFORD LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1219837
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: JOHNSON'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: JOHNSON'S FARMHOUSE, LAFFORD LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1219837
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: JOHNSON'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: JOHNSON'S FARMHOUSE, LAFFORD 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:: JOHNSON'S FARMHOUSE, LAFFORD LANE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:: Up Holland
National Grid Reference:: SD 52264 06937

Details

UP HOLLAND

SD50NW LAFFORD LANE 783-1/2/41 (East side) 07/01/52 Johnson's Farmhouse

GV II*

Farmhouse. Dated 1647 on gable of south wing, but the main range may be late medieval/earlier C16 in origin; altered. Cream-painted roughcast render probably on sandstone rubble, composition tile roof. H-plan: one-bay hall-range with north and south crosswings, the latter incorporating an integral porch. Single-storey hall and 2-storey wings, 1:1:2 windows. The south wing has the porch in its left side with a Tudor-arched outer doorway and a studded inner door with strap hinges, above the doorway a square datestone with chamfered surround and raised lettering: N/ IE/ 1647, and mullioned windows of 4 lights at ground floor, and 2 and 4 lights at 1st floor, both the larger windows lacking the central mullion, those at 1st floor more deeply recessed and with double-chamfered heads, all with rendered mullions, a hoodmould over that at ground floor and a similar hoodmould over both at 1st floor. To the left the low hall-range has a modern 3-light casement window; the north wing has an altered 3-light window at ground floor, and a formerly 4-light double-chamfered mullioned window at 1st floor now lacking the 1st and 3rd mullions, with a hoodmould. Ridge chimney in line with porch. The right-hand return wall of the south wing has mullioned windows of 1 and 5 lights with hoodmoulds; the rear has various small casement windows. INTERIOR: some features of the hall range suggest that it may have originated as a late medieval open hall, perhaps aisled: it is very wide, and at the north end there are 2 posts, that on the east side roll-moulded (like a spere-post), the other plain but based on the stub of a timber sill mounted on a stone plinth; and between them a shallow sloped studded cove or canopy, suggesting either a former spere truss or a dais; at opposite end a very large inglenook with moulded stone heck and straight timber bressumer with similar coving above it; and ceiling carried on large spine beam with pair of secondary lateral beams; in roof space of hall-range, remains of fire-hood above the inglenook, but no continuation of the possible spere-posts at the lower end. HISTORY: probably originally a timber-framed open-hall (perhaps aisled), cased in stone and a ceiling inserted when the south wing was built in 1647; north wing added in later C17 (probably replacing north end of hall-range); occupied in 1650s by John Naylor, yeoman, and his wife Ellen. Forms a group with barn approx 10 metres south-east (qv) and with pair of cottages on opposite (west) side of lane (qv). (Private Report and Survey: Miller G: 1987-).

Listing NGR: SD5226406937

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Legacy System number:: 389005
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.