Ash Tree House
Ash Tree House, 2, Church Street, Kirkham, PR4 2SE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072020
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ash Tree House
- Statutory Address:
- Ash Tree House, 2, Church Street, Kirkham, PR4 2SE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072020
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ash Tree House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ash Tree House, 2, Church Street, Kirkham, PR4 2SE
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:
- Ash Tree House, 2, Church Street, Kirkham, PR4 2SE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Fylde (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 42710 32170
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 July 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SD 43 SW
9/19
KIRKHAM
CHURCH STREET
No.2, Ash Tree House
(Formerly listed as No.2, CHURCH STREET)
21.6.51
II
House, c.1765. Brick (in Flemish bond) with stone dressings. Hipped slate roof. Three storeys above cellar, five bays with slightly projecting central bay. Chamfered quoins and modillion cornice. Doorway (up five steps) has a fanlight under a moulded semi-circular architrave (with block keystone). This is carried on Tuscan pilasters and topped by a pediment supported by consoles above shouldered pilasters. Above, the first floor and second floor windows have moulded architraves, with shoulders and ears; the first floor window has a simple cornice, while the second-floor window has a scrolled top. All other windows have plain reveals, gauged brick lintels and stone sills which, on the ground floor, link to form a sill band. Only the second floor windows (of six panes) have glazing bars. Right-hand ground floor window has been converted into a door. Two chimney stacks behind ridge.
Interior: hall has fluted Tuscan pilasters to carry beam supporting median wall. Open string staircase has plain brackets and three fluted balusters per tread carrying a ramped and wreathed handrail of mahogany.
History: built by Thomas Langton, a local flax-merchant, son of the founder of the Kirkham Linen Mill.
Listing NGR: SD4271032170
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183589
- 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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