Close House
CLOSE HOUSE, BOLTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072490
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Close House
- Statutory Address:
- CLOSE HOUSE, BOLTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072490
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Close House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOSE HOUSE, BOLTON 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:
- CLOSE HOUSE, BOLTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Withnell
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 63699 23260
Details
WITHNELL BOLTON ROAD SD 62 SW 6/223 Close House (Formerly listed 1.3.67 as Middle Farm House) - II
Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1638 on lintel of rear door but probably 2 builds; altered. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins (painted white), roof of stone slate (front) and slate with coping and kneelers at right gable. L-shaped: 2-bay baffle-entry range with receding 2-bay left wing. Two storeys; large 2-storey gabled porch-cum-stairturret has doorway offset to right with roll-moulded surround and hoodmould, a chamfered round-headed window above, a stairlight window to the left with a hoodmould, and stone gable coping with kneelers; this stairlight and 2 windows on each floor to the left are all double-chamfered and formerly all of 2 lights but all lack mullions except that at ground floor left, which has a hoodmould, as has that next to the porch but with its right end covered by the porch (suggesting that porch is early addition). To right of porch a low gabled addition covers most of the 2nd bay, which otherwise has only all modern openings to front and rear and a lean-to at the gable wall. Left wing, facing east, has a former doorway offset right of centre altered as a window and 2 double-chamfered windows on each floor lacking all mullions but formerly of 3-lights to the left and 2 lights to the right; chimney at left gable and stone copings to both; rear re-entrant wall of this wing has a doorway with lintel lettered in relief "1638" (now covered by outer door). Rear of main range has mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights at ground floor, one and 3 above (the smaller being firewindows). Interior: housepart has large inglenook with stone heck (pierced by triangular peephole) and stop-chamfered bressummer, and 2 longitudinal beams similarly decorated; chamber above has timber-framed corridor partition; main range has roof with exceptionally long purlins, the ends carried through the stone partition to the wing, vacant windbrace housings suggesting re-use; wing has principal-rafter roof truss with small angle struts and remains of clamstaff and daub infilling in the apex. Second bay of main range said to have been shippon.
Listing NGR: SD6369923260
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184477
- 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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