Dean Gate

Dean Gate on the Smithills Hall Estate.

A mid-19th Century house on the site of an early 18th Century or possibly older farmstead. Datestones from a remodelling in the 19th Century, read P.A. for Peter Ainsworth and the year 1842. Older datestones are present including ‘R’ over ‘I N’ and the year 1721.

Currently empty and boarded for a few years (2021) the building is a large, stone farmhouse with ruinous outbuildings to the rear and a small stone cottage adjacent. The rubble remains of other outbuildings are found in the small woodland opposite. This shell of a historic former home is in need of sympathetic restoration.

Dean Gate frontage with Datestones

Datestone 1721 at Dean Gate

Old Water Trough at Dean Gate

Former Farmyard at Dean Gate

Partially Renovated interior rooms of Dean Gate

Ruined Outbuildings at Dean Gate

The Old Barn at Dean Gate

Local History

Historic monuments near Dean Gate

Coking ovens and associated coal workings on Aushaw Moss 450m south west of Lower House – 8.77 km away
Pike Stones chambered long cairn – 8.08 km away
Stone circle, ring cairn and two round cairns on Cheetham Close – 4.70 km away
Round Loaf bowl barrow on Anglezarke Moor – 7.99 km away
Round cairn on Noon Hill – 5.15 km away
Round cairn on Winter Hill – 4.47 km away
Roman road at Bottom o’ th’ Knotts Brow – 6.48 km away
Steam tramway reversing triangle – 8.54 km away
Affetside Cross at Affetside 75m north west of the Pack Horse Inn – 6.71 km away
Gidlow Hall moated site, Aspull, 560m NNE of Pennington Hall – 8.12 km away
Round cairn 280m west of Old Harpers Farm – 2.65 km away