Carr House (Lancashire)
Carr House is a country house on the property of Bank Hall in the extreme northwest of the village of Bretherton , halfway between the villages of Tarleton and Much Hoole in the English county of Lancashire . The entrance facade of the building faces south, towards Bretherton Road . The Jacobean style house is set back from the street and has a forecourt, which is bordered on its west side by farm buildings.
English Heritage has the building as Historic Building II *. Grade listed.
The Stone family
Carr House is the family home of the Stones . Thomas Stone , a clothing dealer from London , and his brother Andrew , a merchant from Amsterdam , had it built in 1613.
The local church of H. Michael was built in 1628. The Stones had given them to the residents of the villages of Croston , Much Hoole, and Bretherton . They also had a mansion built for the pastor of St Micheal. John Stone donated the baptismal font and his wife the silver chalices and plates that are still used in the church for Holy Communion today.
Andrew Stone had goods brought to England via Hoole and Richard Stone imported Irish wood panels and wood in 1604 for the Shuttleworth family , who then had Gawthorpe Hall built, and stored them in Hoole's tithe barn until they were used .
architecture
The country house was built in 1613 and its floor plan showed two wings on either side of the central porch. The building was built in red brick , which has been weathered over the centuries and so today has a pleasant, warm color. The blue brick damascene and corner stones of unequal length correspond to the patterns from the same period at Rufford Old Hall , Bank Hall and the Church of Hoole . The outside of the building has not changed significantly since its construction; all the old stone Ajimez windows are still preserved today, so the masonry has not been changed. The roof is covered with blue slate instead of the usual flagstones found in most old Lancashire houses from this period. The vestibule is the dominant component on the entrance facade; it lies in the middle and extends up to the roof on the third floor.
There are ten windows on the front facade, four on the ground floor, five on the first floor and one on the top floor, each with roofs . All have four panes set in lead, only those above the porch have five. There are four vertical cuts in the masonry between the upper and lower windows, which are now filled with mortar. The reason for this construction detail was the partial avoidance of the window tax ; it was claimed that the upper and lower windows were connected and therefore counted as one window.
An inscription in raised letters on the stone slab above the front door reads: Thomas Stones from London, haberdashery dealer, and Andrewe Stones, merchant from Amsterdam, had this house built at their own expense and gave the same to their brother, John Stones: Anno Domini 1613. Laus. The inscription is strangely divided at its end by the passage.
The walls of the upper rooms are said to have been paneled with oak in the past, but the paneling is said to have been built into it during the renovation of Bank Hall in 1832.
An important architectural detail of the house is the very rare lattice post staircase; four inner posts support the staircase to its full height without interruption.
Jeremiah Horrocks
It is generally said that Jeremiah Horrocks made his observation of the passage of Venus on November 24, 1639, from the room above the porch. He was staying at Carr House as a guest and tenant of Mr. Stone at the time. It is also believed that Jeremiah Horrocks was the tutor for the children of the Stone family.
Doll museum
Carr House once housed a doll museum that displayed the Harry Elder's Collection .
Today the collection is housed elsewhere and the building is once again a private home.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spring Cleaning 2001 . Stone Family Association. ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
- ^ English Heritage Reunion - Report to Members . Stone Family Association. ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
- ↑ Jessica Lofthouse: Lancashire Villages . Robert Hale, London 1978. p. 48.
- ^ 4th Annual Report of the Stone Family Association . Stone Family Association. ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
- ↑ No. 29: SD 4630 2145: Carr House . Chorley Halls. Chorley Historical and Architectural Society, 2010. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
- ↑ Dr. V. Barocas (preface): A Country Curate . SAO / NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). Retrieved June 6, 2016.
- ↑ Jessica Lofthouse: Lancashire Villages . Robert Hale, London 1978. p. 49.
- ^ Richard Peace: Lancashire Curiosities . The Dovecote Press, Wimborne 1997. p. 79.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 12.8 " N , 2 ° 48 ′ 54" W.