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Raikes Farmhouse

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Architectural Heritage Dossier

covering Thornton, (FY5), Lancashire

  

Compiled by Mike Pollard, 2009   Second Issue

 
Location:Raikes Road, Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire               
Type of Building:Agricultural and Subsistance
Year Built:1692
Listing Status:Grade II
 

 Picture by Mike Pollard 2004

 

 

Description (from Images of england)

 
Farmhouse dated 1692 with 20c extension to rear.  Probably brick, now pebble dashed with stone cornice gutter and graded slate roof.
Stone coping on left gable.  3 unit baffle – entry plan, one axial chimney stack and one gable chimney stack.  2 storeys, asymmetrical, plain doorway, door recessed, one 2 light casement window on each floor on the left, two 3 light casement windows on each floor on the right (those on ground floor have keystones) all with stone sills and wooden frames.
Each gable wall has small sashed window on ground floor, right gable has inset square sandstone tablet lettered in relief B T S 1692.
Interior:  Had a staircase, now removed, in right bay which was previously kitchen.
Rush ceilings on upper floor and in outshut at rear of right bay.

  

 

History Details

 

Possibly Thornton’s oldest surviving building.  Although the datestone is 1692, records show deaths at this address in 1595 and a baptism in 1601. 

Maybe Raikes replaced an older building on the same site.

 
 

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