Building record 1391/1 - Row of Trees Farmhouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58394 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

House, formerly a farmhouse. 1607 with nineteenth and twentieth century additions and alterations. Timber framed with brick and wattle and daub infill. Stone slate roof and stone chimney stack. Baffle-entry plan (altered to corridor plan), single range. Two storeys. Entrance front: stone plinth, small framing with arch braces, gabled wing slightly projecting to left hand side. Under side of gable tie beam stands proud showing ovolo moulding and arch braces connect this with principal rafters. Ends of wall plates, purlins and ridge exposed. Segmental brick arches to lower windows and doorway. Doors and windows replaced in the nineteenth or twentieth century. Gable chimney stack above front door with four diamond shaped chimneys. Stone chimney stack abutting left hand side with cyma recta string course, inscribed EDMUND DUNCALF A:DN1 1607. Two diamond shaped brick stacks above, small fine window facing garden front at first floor level. Small eighteenth or nineteenth century addition to right hand side and probable twentieth century projecting wing to right of garden front. Interior: Ingle nook hearth to parlour with chamfered bressumer. Chamfered stopped beams to parlour and study, some small framing. Queen strutted truss with angle braces.

<2> Jay Ashall Partnership Chartered Architects, 2019, Heritage Impact Assessment: Row of Trees House, Knutsford Road, Chorley, R4345 (Client Report). SCH8752.

A heritage impact assessment was produced in 2019 in support of the proposed alterations to 1 Carr Lane, Knutsford Road, Chorley, and their potential impact on the adjacent Grade II listed property 'Row of Trees House'. From the layout of the site and historical mapping, it is believed that the converted barn which now forms No. 1 Carr Lane originally served as a barn to Row of Trees House (originally a farm). Both buildings appear on the Tithe Map of circa 1841 in a single plot (Plot 2539).

It is believed that the Row of Trees House dates back to 1607. Historical accounts state that in 1665, a lady visited the farm to escape the Great Plague. The building originally served as a farm house and is now in residential use. The building is timber framed with brick and wattle and daub infill with a stone-slate roof and stone chimney stack. It is two storeys in height with a gabled wing to the left and a later 18th or 19th century extension to the right. There is another later wing to the rear probably constructed in the 20th century. The doors and windows have been replaced to the property in 19th or 20th century. There has also been a significant 21st century extension completed to the property in 2009.