Holker House Farmhouse

HOLKER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, LONG HEY LANE, HODDLESDEN, DARWEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1072439
Date first listed:
04-Jan-1967
Statutory Address:
HOLKER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, LONG HEY LANE, HODDLESDEN, DARWEN
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Date:
2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1072439
Date first listed:
04-Jan-1967
Statutory Address 1:
HOLKER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, LONG HEY LANE, HODDLESDEN, DARWEN

Location

Statutory Address:
HOLKER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, LONG HEY LANE, HODDLESDEN, DARWEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 72029 22210

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/01/2013


SD 72 SW
5/19

DARWEN
LONG HEY LANE
Hoddlesden
Holker House Farmhouse


(Formerly listed under Hoddlesdon)

4-1-1967

II
Farmhouse, dated 1691. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins
(sides and rear rendered), slate roof with copings and kneelers,
a chimney in front of the ridge and another at the right gable.
Double pile 2-bay plan with projecting porch at junction of bays.
Two storeys, almost symmetrical; dripcourse at ground floor window
head level stepped over windows and carried round whole building. Two
storey gabled porch, with kneelers and ball finial on apex, offset
slightly left of centre, has old boarded door with massive lintel,
1st floor window of 3 stepped round-headed lights with hollowed
spandrels, stepped hoodmould: over the centre of this E is a square
date stone with moulded surround, lettered in relief 'R I" at the head
and "16" "91" in the bottom corners, with a rampant beast in the centre
(worn); and in the gable a blocked oval opening. Each side of the porch
at ground floor is a 3-light window with chamfered mullions, and at
1st floor a stepped window similar to that in the porch. Left return
wall has small lean-to towards the rear, a small window beside it,
2 similar windows to 1st floor and to attic, the heads of the latter
crossed by a stone band. Door and various other openings in rear wall.
Interior altered.


Listing NGR: SD7202922210

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