Building record 6698 - Houndslough Farm

<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, MAN/HB 33 (Paper Archive). SCH5481.

Brick farmhouse. Date plaque on half hipped gable - VR the rest is illegible. Flared headers form courses (not projecting) in red brick; on front four courses; beneath ground floor windows, level with top of ground floor, base of first floor windows, and top of first floor windows. Also used decoratively on stacks which also have one course of dog-toothed brick.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ5372, 1873-1874 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

The farmstead is not depicted on this map. The farmstead to the south-east (modern name Pinewood Farm) is labelled Hondslough Farm.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ5372, 1898 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

The farmstead is first depicted on this map with two further farm buildings to the north and north-east, arranged around a yard.

<5> Shrubsole GW, 1891, On a Settlement of Prehistoric People in Delamere Forest, p.109 (Article in Journal). SCH9178.

The construction of the farmstead is possibly the building work referred to in this paper and dated to 1879.