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Marsh Farmhouse

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Architectural Heritage Dossier

covering Thornton, (FY5), Lancashire

  

Compiled by Mike Pollard, 2009   Second Issue

 
Location:(Off) Victoria Road East, Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
Type of Building:Agricultural and Subsistance
Year Built:1803
Listing Status:Grade II  (16th August 1983)
 

North side showing the original 12 light sashes.

View from south east, some of the windows are modern.

Pictures by Mike Pollard 2004

Front entrance door, which looks to be original has a keystone in the brick arch above bearing the inscription "B.F. Hesketh esq 1803".

                                                  

 

 

Description ( from Images of England )

 

Farmhouse dated 1803, brick with stone dressings, rendered at back and sides, concrete tiled roof.
Double pile plan of 2 bays, facing north, 2 storeys, symmetrical with gable chimney stacks.
Front has central doorway, probably altered, with wide semi circular relieving arch of brick with stone imposts and keystone inscribed B.F. Hesketh esq 1803 and containing slightly recessed plain rectangular stone doorcase and paneled door.
Ground floor has one window each side, sashed with glazing bars, stone sills and splayed heads; 1st floor has 3 similar windows.

 

 

Set well back from the road, Marsh Farmhouse can only be seen during the winter months, it’s one of Thornton’s oldest surviving houses.  Built as one of the many farmhouses in the area it no longer operates as a farm.

 

The reference to B.F. Hesketh above the door probably relates to Bold Fleetwood Hesketh who was the Lord of the Manor.  His inscription also survives today on the lintel above the main entrance door to the windmill at Marsh Mill, Thornton.

 
 

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