Bury Fold

BURY FOLD, 5-6, BURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072437
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1978
List Entry Name:
Bury Fold
Statutory Address:
BURY FOLD, 5-6, BURY ROAD
Numbers 5 and 6 Bury Fold in Darwen. A farmhouse that is dated 1675, and now two dwellings.
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Date:
2001-06-30
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072437
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1978
List Entry Name:
Bury Fold
Statutory Address 1:
BURY FOLD, 5-6, BURY ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
BURY FOLD, 5-6, BURY 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 69282 20836

Details

SD 62 SE DARWEN BURY ROAD

4/12 Nos. 5 and 6 Bury Fold 12.7.1978 - II

Farmhouse, dated 1675, now 2 dwellings. Watershot coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, roof now tiled and pantiled with 2 chimneys on the ridge and one at left gable, and gable copings with kneelers (except at left gable). Four-bay baffle-entry plan, two storeys, with 2½ storey porch to 2nd bay. Ground floor of porch has doorway offset left with large lintel, a small rectangular window to the right, and a very small peephole in the left side wall; 1st floor, which oversails, has square moulded recess for datestone (replaced) over the door, an elaborately moulded ogival-headed 5-light let floor window with moulded mullions and a hoodmould, and above this a recessed window of 2 round- headed lights similarly moulded, with a hoodmould: both these windows have diamond leaded glazing. Left of the porch one 5-light window on each floor, both formerly mullioned, the lower with a hoodmould, the upper with stepped lights and hoodmould but lengthened downwards. Modern 2-storey lean-to at left end covering a blocked 3-light window which has hollow-chamfered mullions, and a former doorway with chamfered surround. Rear and right end walls altered. Renovation in progress at time of survey: 2-storey extension at right side of porch demolished, exposing 2-light mullioned window lacking mullion, porch to be taken down and rebuilt. Interior: 2nd bay has very large moulded stone arch inglenook, and 2 stop-chamfered beams.

Listing NGR: SD6928220836

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Legacy System number:
184683
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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