Ivy Cottage, Reading Room, and Connecting Buildings in Same Range
IVY COTTAGE, READING ROOM, AND CONNECTING BUILDINGS IN SAME RANGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072098
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy Cottage, Reading Room, and Connecting Buildings in Same Range
- Statutory Address:
- IVY COTTAGE, READING ROOM, AND CONNECTING BUILDINGS IN SAME RANGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072098
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy Cottage, Reading Room, and Connecting Buildings in Same Range
- Statutory Address 1:
- IVY COTTAGE, READING ROOM, AND CONNECTING BUILDINGS IN SAME RANGE
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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:
- IVY COTTAGE, READING ROOM, AND CONNECTING BUILDINGS IN SAME RANGE
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:
- SD 77571 46328
Details
SD 74 NE SAWLEY
SD 775 463 Ivy Cottage, Reading Room, and 3/149 connecting buildings in same range - GV II
Row of buildings, probably early C19th and industrial, with medieval remains, partly converted for domestic use and partly converted into a Methodist Chapel in 1867. Sandstone rubble with stone slate roof. Ivy Cottage, at the east end, is of 2 storeys, and of one bay to the south, having tripartite windows with plain stone surrounds and square mullions. To the right is a door with plain stone surround. The main range has openings with plain reveals, including 5 doorways on the ground floor. Towards the left is the chapel, with 3 windows on the 1st floor with plain stone surrounds and semi-circular heads. To its right is a chamfered ground-floor window. The west gable wall adjoins the site of the former Abbey mill and incorporates a wide chamfered fireplace with segmental head and with a narrower arched recess to its left. On the 1st floor is a blocked chamfered doorway with Tudor-arched head. The north wall has openings with plain reveals, some 1st floor doors towards the left reached from an external platform, The chapel, further right, has 3 windows with plain stone surrounds and semi-circular heads. At the left is a 1st floor door with similar surround. At the far right is a chamfered slit opening on the ground floor. Interior not fully inspected, but 2 ground-floor windows on the north side and one on the south side have splayed reveals and chamfered inner arches of dressed stone. The site of the former Abbey Mill, at the west, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: SD7757146328
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183468
- 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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