Henshall Farm
Location/Address
Red House Lane, Dunham Massey
Type
Description
HER 7616.1.0
1777: map shows 3 sites on Red House Lane. (1)
1838: site consists of 2 L-shaped buildings, described as 'House & Garden', No. 255. (2)
1873: site named as Henshall Farm, and consists of 2 buildings, 1 L-shaped, the other irregular. (4)
OS 1929: shows 4 rectangular buildings (5), as does the 1983 map.
A typical brick-built, double-pile farmhouse of c.1800 with later additions and alterations.
Dwelling house of c.1800. Built of brick in English garden wall bond with Flemish bond to the front elevation. Later (c.1910) red machine bricks to quoins, doorway and windows. Stone footings. Double pile, two-storey, with gabled extension to rear and smaller additions also to rear. Projecting central bay to front elevation over front door. Gable roof, slate covered, with red ridge tiles, barge boards, iron gutters and downpipes. The chimneys are inside at gables with red machine brick oversailing and red vented tile pots. Re-roofed c.1900. The windows to the front are 3-light, single pane with 16 leaded pane single light over each under cambered narrow machine red brick arch. To the rear the windows are 2 or 3-light casements under segmental brick arches. The front door is panelled and glazed with two lights, set in a half glazed timber frame. The door is recessed beneath a segmental brick arch with a modern trellised porch to the front. The original back door is now blocked and a window inserted in its place. The back door is now via the cat-slide lean-to to rear. Internally, the doors are panelled and moulded with moulded architraves at ground floor and battened timber at first floor. The ceiling are low to the ground floor, but higher to the first floor due to re-roofing. The main stair is dog-leg, timber, rising from hallway. The back stair runs from the old kitchen area, turn, timber with winders, enclosed. The scullery and single-storey dairy addition to the rear of the house has a single pitch, slate covered roof and chimney. A window in the rear elevation has been blocked at the point where the lean-to roof meets the wall. A further, relatively modern addition to the end of the lean-to also has a single pitch roof.
Two storey L-plan range originally of c.1840 but rebuilt to ‘Stamford’ specifications in 1910. Originally consisting of a shippon for 12 cows, a root store, a dairy, a stable and a bullcote. Built of brick in mostly Flemish garden wall bond with some English garden wall bond to the sides. Red machine brick dressings to the quoins, string course, windows, doors and pitching eyes. Gable roof, slates, red ridge tiles, vents at intervals and barge boards. Roof carried on strutted king-post trusses. The windows are 3-light with 3-pane central-pivot top opening light casements under segmental brick arches. Similar to rear but under concrete lintels. Two-light, 2-pane casements to first floor. The pitching eye to the SE gable is glazed with four fixed panes. The doors are battened timber under segmental brick arches. Horizontal sliding door to S side. Single-storey open bay garage to SW has modern steel roll-over door for security. The ground floor is concrete except in the old stable block where cobbles remain in situ. Original timber partitions with hay racks and feeding troughs survive. Straight timber stair to timber floored loft over.
Five-bay Dutch barn to rear of range. Metal frame carrying gable roof on iron stanchions with concrete footings. Corrugated asbestos covered roof. Modern steel plated doors to bays. The Dutch barn was moved here in 1984 from its original site to the N side of the main range.
Statement of Significance
Age
c. 1800
Date Listed
20 Mar 2023
Last Updated
13 Jun 2022
Find Out More
Find out more about this Asset in Greater Manchester Local Heritage List:
https://local-heritage-list.org.uk/greater-manchester/asset/8333
https://local-heritage-list.org.uk/greater-manchester/asset/8333