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Poolfoot Cottage

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Architectural Heritage Dossier

covering Thornton, (FY5), Lancashire

  

Compiled by Mike Pollard, 2009   Second Issue

 
Location:Crabtree Road, Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
Type of Building:Domestic, originally Agricultural and Subsistance.
Year Built:c18 or earlier
Listing Status:Grade II  (16th August 1983)
 

Picture by Mike Pollard 2004

 

 

Description (from Images of England)

 

Pair of cottages, now one. Cobble walls, rendered and whitewashed, formerly thatched and now covered with slate roof.  5 single – cell bays, 2 axial chimney stacks. Single storey.
Modern entrance porch to second bay, French windows to 4th bay, rectangular window with glazing bars and 12 panes in 3rd bay, another in 5th bay with small 2 light sliding sash window beyond it, large inserted rectangular bay windows in 2nd and 4th bays. Deep eaves, boxed with boards.
Interior: original roof structure exposed in 3rd bay and visible in loft over 4th bay.  Raised trusses supported on cross walls, halved at the ridge, with purlins of large scantling, roughly hewn, common rafters from ridge to purlin, and from purlin to outer walls, thatch said to be in situ over 2nd and 3rd bays.

 

 

History details

  

Believed to be 1692, and is shown on maps around this time.

 

Today Poolfoot is secluded behind a hedge and difficult to imagine how it would have looked when it was part of the working farm.  The roof would almost certainly have been thatched. 

 
 

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