Higher Carr Green Farmhouse

Location/Address

Carr Green Lane, Warburton

Type

Building

Roofed and walled permanent structures.

Description

HER 7563.1.0 Shown on Swire & Hutchings 1829 map. (1) Tithe map 1839: "House, Barn, Garden etc". App. No. 427. Occupier: William Robinson, who farmed 47/2/36 acres. (2) OS 1873: site unnamed, but shown as 2 oblong buildings in L-shaped formation. (3) OS 1983: site consists of numerous buildings, but 2 L-shaped buildings are shown. Buildings shown here on the c 1757 estate plan. (4) This lies on the northern side of Carr Green Lane at the eastern end of the township. The farmhouse is a two-storey, handmade-brick structure, four bays long. It has a slate roof and gable-end chimneys. The external brick walls sit on a sandstone plinth up to three courses high. A stone post-pad was seen beneath the plinth in the southern elevation. This indicates that the farmhouse had an earlier form of timber-framing. Some of the sandstone blocks that form the later plinth have herring-bone tooling. There were several building breaks in the brickwork suggesting a number of phases of rebuilding. Externally, it has three-light casement windows and there are also iron strengthening bars visible in the southern and northern elevations. The northern elevation has a late 20th century two-storey addition. Internally, there is a cross-passage between the western end bay and the middle bays. The southern end of this passage ends in a late 20th century brick porch. There is also extensive timber framing including moulded ceiling beams (possibly re-used) and internal timber-framed partitions. There are a number of plank-and-baton doors on cast-iron gudgeons. The building is shown on the Warburton 1757 estate plan. A building survey was carried out in 2008 by the South Trafford Archaeological Group. Known Occupants/Tenants 1757 John Okell. 1778 Tenant John Okell, occupied by William Robinson. 1839 William Robinson. 1918 Purchased by the CWS. 2008 Mr & Mrs John Jennings (owners).

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Statement of Significance

Asset type

Farmhouse

Age

16th to 20th century

Rarity

One of several dozen former farmhouses in the village of Warburton.

Architectural and Artistic Interest

Timber-framed and brick-built domestic property in local vernacular style.

Group Value

Historic Interest

Formerly a tenanted farmhouse on the Warburton-Egerton estate.

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Exterior, main, elevation of Higher Carrgreen Farmhouse