Photo-a-Day (Monday, 9th June, 2025)
New build
The White House behind is the rear of Ivy House at the top of Ivy Brow.
Photo: Dennis Seddon (Sony DSC-HX99)
Southern Fold Farm, off Wigan Road, Aspull.
The "handsome" house is already built and he's building another at the side of it, mirror image.
I've seen neater brickwork, and I'll not mention those soil pipes?
Lovely rural setting.Fortunate people to be able to live there.
Much needed affordable homes ? They could have fitted a couple of nice terraces on that lot .
A poor example of a new build pretend barn conversion, more money than sense.
Won’t win any prizes on Grand Designs.
Is it right that houses built in that location are actually built on solid rock, rather than on clay ?
That being because Ivy Brow used to be a rocky outcrop, which was removed and used to provide hardcore ballast for the construction of the M61.
Link below to an aerial photo on the Album and posted by Ozy, showing the quarry that was once near to Higher Lane and the Ivy Brow pub, and with Wigan Road running through the middle of it:
https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=34929&page=1