Lower Woodcock Farmhouse
LOWER WOODCOCK FARMHOUSE, YORK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072068
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Woodcock Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER WOODCOCK FARMHOUSE, YORK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072068
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Woodcock Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER WOODCOCK FARMHOUSE, YORK 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:
- LOWER WOODCOCK FARMHOUSE, YORK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Ribble Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Billington and Langho
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 70437 33975
Details
BILLINGTON YORK LANE SD 73 SW Langho 6/15 Lower Woodcock Farmhouse 24-5-1983 - II House, 1671, extended 1764. Sandstone rubble with slate roof. 2 storeys. Original section to west has a double-chamfered 3-light mullioned window surviving in the north and south walls. The east section is dated by a plaque '1764' on its gable wall, now within the adjacent barn. It has watershot stonework and flat-faced mullioned windows. Inside, the original section has encased beams and a wattle and daub dividing wall. In its east wall it has an elaborately-carved spice cupboard with initials and date '1671'. The position of the original doorway is not clear, but was possibly through an earlier part of the building on the site of the 1764 extension. The 1764 section has axial beams.
Listing NGR: SD7043733975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183500
- 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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