1, 2 and 3 Abbeycroft
1-4, ABBEYCROFT, THE SANDS, WHALLEY, BB7 9TN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072047
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 2 and 3 Abbeycroft
- Statutory Address:
- 1-4, ABBEYCROFT, THE SANDS, WHALLEY, BB7 9TN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072047
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 2 and 3 Abbeycroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-4, ABBEYCROFT, THE SANDS, WHALLEY, BB7 9TN
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:
- 1-4, ABBEYCROFT, THE SANDS, WHALLEY, BB7 9TN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Ribble Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whalley
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 72930 36140
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/06/2016
SD 73 NW
2/72
WHALLEY
THE SANDS
Nos. 1-4 Abbeycroft
(Formerly listed as Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Abbeycroft)
13-2-1967
GV
II
Row of 4 houses, probably originally one, mid C17, altered late C19.
Sandstone rubble with roof of slate and stone slate. 2 storeys, with attic
and with drip course. Windows C19, chamfered with central mullion. Doors
have chamfered stone surrounds. Nos.3 and 4, at the left, is of 5 bays and has
stone attic gabled dormers over the 3rd and 5th bays, with one-light
chamfered windows. Doors in 3rd and 4th bays. No.2 is of one bay and has a
door at the left and has 2 attic dormers. No.1 has a window to the left of
and one above the door, and an attic dormer. Chimneys on left-hand gable
and between houses. Inside, the door of No.2 opens against a firehood
baffle. The heck post and bressumer are moulded and stopped. Above the
bressumer is a ceiling beam, 2 studs remaining of the plastered infill
which must have joined them. Nos.3 and 4, not accessible at time of survey, but
said to have bressumer for a firehood which backed onto that in No.2, and
an outshut which contains a dog-leg stair with turned balusters and
moulded handrail. Nos.2 and 3 have ceiling beams with quarter-round
mouldings. Interior of No.1 said to contain no C17 features. RCHM report
by Sarah Pearson dated August 1979.
Listing NGR: SD7292836141
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183558
- 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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