The Bent Farmhouse
THE BENT FARMHOUSE, BENT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067898
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Bent Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE BENT FARMHOUSE, BENT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067898
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Bent Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BENT FARMHOUSE, BENT LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE BENT FARMHOUSE, BENT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Warburton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 70411 89163
Details
SJ 78 NW WARBURTON BENT LANE (west side)
6/176 The Bent - Farmhouse
G.V. II
Farmhouse. "Built R.D. A.D:1600 R.E.E.W Restored A.D:1880" on tie beam (Richard Drinkwater and Roland Eyles Egerton- Warburton). Restoration by John Douglas. Stone plinth; brick front with terracotta dressings and restored timber framed gables; box framed rear with brick nogging; clay tile roof. Heavy restoration of a large 3-unit baffle-entry plan with 2 storeys, projecting crosswing (formerly kitchen and parlour) to right of house-part and utility rooms to the right of that. 5 bays to left of crosswing and 2 to right. Stone plinth, continuous hoodmould, lozenge-shaped decorative brickwork to first floor and overhanging eaves. Five 2-light, one 3-light and two 4-light windows to ground floor;one 1-light, three 3-light and one 4-light to first. All have ovolo-moulded terracotta mullions and cast iron casements with glazing bars. Porch (C19) in bay 3, gables over bay 3 and 4, and 5 with enriched bressumers and finials. 3 structural bays of box framing at rear and remnants in crosswing are well preserved and include a blocked 3-light ovolo-moulded timber mullion window and diagonal braces. Projecting stone bay with chamfered mullion windows to house-part. 3 decorative brick chimney stacks. Interior, has C17 ovolo moulded beams throughout ground floor, including a bressumer beam over an inglenook fire with former fire-window. Jacobean (and maybe some older) oak panelling in bay-window. A good early example with interesting Douglas restoration.
Listing NGR: SJ7041189163
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212937
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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