Building record 5828 - Broken Cross Farm, Farm Road

<1> Vale Royal Borough Council, 2006, Vale Royal Borough Council's List of Locally Important Buildings (Report). SCH5487.

Criterion E: Buildings included in the Vale Royal Borough Council historic buildings survey 1977 – 79.

<2> Vale Royal Borough Council, 1977-79, The Vale Royal Borough Council Historic Buildings Survey Index Card, RUD/HB 1 (Paper Archive). SCH5481.

Dwelling house with extension built circa 1825.

<3> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 346/2 c.1846 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

This map depicts the farmhouse with three farm buildings to the south-west and a possible yard in-between. The plot is described as 'house, building and garden'.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ6873, 1877-1880 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

This map depicts the farmhouse with probable pigsties and orchard to the north. The two larger farm buildings (of the three depicted on (3)) are still extant.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ6873, 1898 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

A long possibly open sided farm building has been constructed to the immediate south-west of the existing farm buildings.

<7> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ6873, 1910 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

A small group of farm buildings has been constructed at the southern end of the farmstead.

<8> The GeoInformation Group, 2005, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review (Aerial Photograph). SCH4608.

Only the farmhouse, the most northerly of the farm buildings and possibly the pigsties are still extant.

<9> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 24/04/2018 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

The farmstead was demolished c.1999-2003 and redeveloped for housing.

<10> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

Broken Cross Farm is depicted on this map.

<11> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, Vol.II p.199 (Book). SCH3228.

The name Broken Cross derives from a wayside cross once located at the junction of King Street and Penny Lane. The cross was broken in the seventeenth century.