Building record 1518/1 - Hawkslee Farmhouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58153 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse, seventeenth century, altered eighteenth century and late twentieth century, of brick with rendered front and Kerridge stone-slate roof with gable chimneys of brick. Some stonework and stone quions in rear wall. A symmetrical front of two storeys and two windows. Attic windows in end gables. Late twentieth century door. Interior two chamfered oak beams in parlour. Open-well seventeenth century stair to first and second floors with shaped newels and moulded square rail; late twentieth century balusters. Good arch-braced oak truss in attic.

<2> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, Vol.I p.166 (Book). SCH3228.

First documentary reference to Hawkslee (Haukeslee) dates from 1286 with further references in 1347 (Haukeslegh), 1516 (Hawkyslee), 1547 (Hawkesleghley) and 1580 (Hawksley).