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Date of photo: 2020	Picture source: Steve Turner
The Ferryboat was situated on Littleborough Road. This grade-II listed early 19th century farmhouse partly raised later in the 19th century. This area is the site of a significant Roman fortified town. The house was formerly the Ferry Boat Inn that appears to have been in existence from 1665 and is shown on a map of 1722. John Ashton inherited the inn and £600 in 1812 that then passed to his nephew William Wilkinson sometime before 1820. It was probably around this time the house was re-built. In 1821 William is shown as Farmer, Innkeeper and Fishmonger. The inn passed from the Wilkinson family to the Black family in 1843. It changed hands again in 1880 to the Radley family but in 1887 the Radley family moved away and the inn seems to have closed. It is presumably after this that the building was raised and turned into a private house. Known locally as the “Old Bar House”, census details tell us it was occupied by the Ellis family in 1901 and J Whitehead, J Barlow and Mrs. Ashworth in 1911.
Listed building details:
Farmhouse. Early C19, partly raised later C19. Brick with hipped and gabled slate roof. First floor band, cogged and dentillated eaves, 2 ridge and single gable stacks. 2 storeys plus garrets, 4 bays, L-plan. Main east front has central part-latticed timber porch, containing panelled door with beaded jambs and overlight. Flanked to left by a single glazing bar sash and to right by paired plain sashes. Above, 4 glazing bar sashes, all with segmental heads. South front has 2 glazing bar sashes with segmental heads on each floor.
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