Arches Cottage
ARCHES COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072097
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Arches Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ARCHES COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072097
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Arches Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARCHES COTTAGE
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:
- ARCHES COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Ribble Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sawley
- National Grid Reference:
- SD7762346520
Details
SD 74 NE
SAWLEY
SD 776 465
3/147
Arches Cottage
GV II
Pair of houses, possibly c.1600 with later alterations and possible
earlier remains. 2 storeys. Western house has a 4-light mullioned
window with inner hollow chamfer and outer casement moulding. To the
right is a window with plain reveals under a wider Tudor-arched
doorhead. On the 1st floor is a 3-light window with hollow-chamfered
mullions and a re-used moulded head. To the right is a 2-light mullioned
window of C19th type. At the right is a straight joint which suggests
that the adjoining house may be older, and a single-storey gabled porch.
The eastern (right-hand) house has a window with architrave at the left
and one with plain stone surround at the right. On the 1st floor are 2
sashed windows with plain stone surrounds, At the left is a blocked
one-light chamfered window. The door, now within the porch, has a
chamfered stone surround, Left-hand gable has projecting stack.
Chimney between houses has cap faced with part of embattled medieval
chimney cap. Rear wall has openings with plain reveals, and, at the
right-hand side on the 1st floor, a chamfered opening with segmental
head, now a window.
Listing NGR: SD7762346520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183466
- 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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