Tattersalls House, Worsthorne with Hurstwood, Lancashire

Grade II listed. Listed building description for Tattersalls Farmhouse, Tattersalls House and Wood Nook Cottage – Farmhouse, now 3 dwellings. Probably c.1600, with later addition to rear, altered. Large sandstone blocks brought to courses, with quoins, stone slate roof. Long rectangular range of 4 bays, probably originally unequally divided into a 2-bay hall range with storeyed ends; rear wing to centre (probably a later addition). Two storeys; at the junction of the 3rd and 4th bays, a moulded round-headed doorway (slightly to the right of a ridge chimney); to the left, a recessed 2-light window with a chamfered mullion, lowered sill, and a hoodmould (possibly originally a firewindow), an inserted window above, beyond these a king-mullioned recessed hall window of 3 + 3 lights, with a hoodmould, and at 1st floor above this 2 deeply recessed 3-light windows; at the left end the 1st bay has a recessed 3-light window with hoodmould, an inserted door beside it on the right and at 1st floor a 3-light window with flush mullions; at the right-hand end the 4th bay has an altered window on each floor, the upper with one flush mullion, and at the gable end a huge external chimney stack. Rear: chamfered doorway to 4th bay (in line with the round-headed door at the front), and a 3-light flush-mullion window above. Interior: mostly altered, but roof trusses include a large collar truss with raked struts from the beam to collar (in Wood Nook Cottage) and an open truss with soffit-brace to principal (between 1st floor windows of hallrange); 2 pairs of purlins (some with tongue-stopped chamfer); doorway in rear wall of 1st bay (leading to kitchen) with broad segmental-headed chamfer. Historic England List Entry Number: 1205773 NGR: SD 88048 31380