Woodlands
WOODLANDS, PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072411
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Woodlands
- Statutory Address:
- WOODLANDS, PARK ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06416/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072411
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Woodlands
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODLANDS, PARK ROAD
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:
- WOODLANDS, PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Darwen
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 69393 20460
Details
SD 62 SE DARWEN PARK ROAD
4/22 Woodlands - GV II
Manufacturer's mansion, 1860's. Red and blue brick with stone dressings, steeply-pitched slate roofs with shaped gables, various chimneys with weathered caps. Two linked but unequal ranges giving a 4-bay south front, a 2-bay east end, and a shorter 4-bay entrance front to the carriage drive. Basement and 2½ storeys: in Jacobean style with diaper patterning, 2 bands between floors, prominent moulded cornice bearing a balustrade with urn finials linking the gables. The second bay of the entrance front is a rectangular 2½ storey gabled bay which has in its left side a raised front door protected by a large single-storey round-arched stone porch in Rennaissance style, with steps to the front and a balustrade in the side arch, and in the wall above a large carved stone shield in a panel. Most windows to ground and 1st floors are 4 and 3 lights with moulded wooden frames and high transoms, attic windows in gables are of 2 lights. Left return wall has 2 gables, and a large rectangular bay window to ground floor, approached by balustraded steps. South (garden) side has 3 gables, and the 2nd bay is set back and has at ground floor a semi-circular bay window with stone parapet. Interior: extravagant Renaissance and Jacobean style decoration and fittings, principally a panelled entrance hall and Jacobean style staircase; moulded plaster frieze, cornice and ceiling of the drawing room and dining room, and the chimney pieces in these rooms: in the former, classical with superimposed orders enclosing a picture in a moulded surround: in the latter, of Jacobean style wooden panelling with a heavy entablature; radiator cabinets designed in matching style.
Listing NGR: SD6939320460
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184693
- 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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