Dovecote House Farmhouse
DOVECOTE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, SHEEPHILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072449
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, SHEEPHILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072449
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, SHEEPHILL LANE
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:
- DOVECOTE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, SHEEPHILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clayton-le-Woods
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 57287 23347
Details
SD 52 SE CLAYTON-LE-WOODS off SHEEPHILL LANE
3/83 Dovecote House Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse, dated 1698 but possibly earlier. Stone plinth, handmade brick, slate roof with one chimney on the ridge and on at right gable. Three-bay baffle-entry plan, with rear outshuts to 1st and 3rd bays, later single storey rubble extension to front of 1st bay. Two storeys and attic. 1st floor band; double saw-toothed 2nd floor band; 2 tie plates. 2-storey gabled porch at junction of 1st and 2nd bays, with large rectangular stone lintel lettered in relief G and heavily-studded I.A, 1698 inner board door; small modern window in blocked original window; 3 small openings in apex of gable. Except ground floor window to 2nd bay (altered), all windows have splayed brick heads and altered glazing. Left return wall has a door and window at ground floor, and an attic window; rear has single-storey outshut to 1st bay, 2-storey outshut to 3rd bay, a blocked 1st floor window and 4 altered windows all with segmental brick relieving arches (one of these is stairlight). Interior: back-to-back inglenook fireplaces with moulded bressummers; ¼-round moulded beams throughout; partitioned 3rd bay has parlour with cross-corner fireplace; good half-turn staircase with landings, string, newel posts with ball finials, turned balusters; timber-framed 1st floor partition walls; roof trusses probably re-used cruck blades.
Listing NGR: SD5728723347
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357599
- 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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