Hill House

HILL HOUSE, VICTORIA STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072485
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Hill House
Statutory Address:
HILL HOUSE, VICTORIA STREET
Hill House in the Wheelton Parish of Chorley. A farmhouse & house, now all one dwelling, from the 17th and 19th century.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072485
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Hill House
Statutory Address 1:
HILL HOUSE, VICTORIA STREET

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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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:
HILL HOUSE, VICTORIA STREET

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Wheelton
National Grid Reference:
SD 60239 21166

Details

WHEELTON VICTORIA STREET SD 62 SW 6/210 Hill House - - II

Farmhouse and house, now all one dwelling. C17 and C19, altered and recently renovated. C19 house added to front of 1st two bays of 3-bay C17 house. All sandstone, the older part coursed thin sandstone rubble with large quoins, the addition watershot coursed with raised quoins, both with slate roofs (steeply pitched over the older part) and ridge chimneys. C17 house, 2 low storeys, has inter alia remains of recessed mullioned windows, some with hoodmoulds but lacking all mullions: one at ground floor of exposed front of 3rd bay, one at 1st floor of gable and 3 at ground floor of rear. C19 addition, 2 higher storeys, has 2 windows on each floor all formerly sashed with plain surrounds, but altered as casements with glazing bars and that at ground floor to left further altered; 2 similarly altered windows on each floor of right gable, and a plain doorway near the junction. Interior not inspected, but believed to contain some features of interest (and absence of any original window openings at 1st floor of rear wall suggests possible cruck-framed origin).

Listing NGR: SD6023921166

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
184464
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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