Listed Building: SPEAKMAN HOUSE (1163187)

Listing Text: LEIGH WARRINGTON ROAD SD 69 NE 6/39 No. 357 7/11/66 (Speakman House) II House. 1630 on datestone but with extensive additions and alterations of subsequent dates. Rendered brick with slate roof. 3 bays with 2 and 3 storeys. Bays 2 and 3 are gabled and constitute the 1630 building. All the window openings appear to be C19 with C20 casements. The original door in bay 2 has been blocked and a C20 door and porch added to the right return. The principal features of interest are internal and include deep ovolo-moulded beams with stepped stops on both ground and first floors, a dogleg stair with closed string, octagonal newel and tapering finials, and a painted legend in the principal chamber: "Who can find a virtuous woman etc.", Proverbs 31 verses 10 and 11, dated 1647. Listing NGR: SJ6706497985