Building record 981/1 - Lower Rileybank Farmhouse

Lower Rileybank Farmhouse, Manley Road. Formerly listed as Mickledale. Probably early 17th century, altered. English garden wall bond small brown bricks to front, sandstone to back; roof of grey slates. Three boarded doors indicate a longhouse-derivative plan. Former chapel, now calf- shed, form cross-wing left, largely ofcoursed red sandstone. Interior: oak beams and two inglenooks. Carved sandstone panel in former chapel; fleur- de-lys with a cross to each side (1). Full architectural description (1) and (2). There is an associated handpump that dates from the nineteenth century and comprimises a cast iron pump and stone trough (3).

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /2/104 (Report). SCH1934.

<2> Department for the Environment, Various, Provisional List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /9/19 1964 (Report). SCH2744.

<3> Lancaster Archaeological Unit, 2001, Cheshire Boreholes Cheshire: Archaeological Assessment, 07 (Client Report). SCH4257.