Laund Fold Farmhouse

LAUND FOLD FARMHOUSE, LAUND LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072492
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Laund Fold Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
LAUND FOLD FARMHOUSE, LAUND LANE
Laund Fold Farmhouse. A farmhouse that is probably from the late 17th century. It has been raised and altered.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072492
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Laund Fold Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
LAUND FOLD FARMHOUSE, LAUND LANE

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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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LAUND FOLD FARMHOUSE, LAUND LANE

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 62321 24145

Details

WITHNELL LAUND LANE SD 62 SW 6/227 Laund Fold Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse. Probably late C17, raised and altered. Coursed sandstone with quoins, mostly roughcast, stone slate roof with brick chimney, (some brick apparent at 1st floor, visible internally). Three-bay baffle-entry plan with projecting porch. Two storeys; plinth, 1st floor band; 2-storey gabled porch in line with ridge chimney at junction of 1st and 2nd bays has lower level of sandstone blocks, with plain doorway, roughcast 1st floor with a sashed window; wooden lean-to in angle to left; to right, recessed chamfered mullion windows of 5 and 3 lights, an inserted door between these; 1st floor has 4 sashed windows all with 4 panes except that to middle bay which has 6 panes. Left gable wall has inter alia a 3-light mullioned window at ground floor; right gable wall mostly covered by lean-to addition with corner chimney, but has a small attic window and a gable chimney. Rear has inter alia a formerly mullioned 3-light window to middle bay, 5-light window to 3rd bay (one light blocked). Interior: stop-chamfered beams on both floors of 1st bay, roll-moulded beam at ground floor of middle bay; renovation in progress at time of survey (1985). (Barn to north has re-located datestone probably 1702).

Listing NGR: SD6232124145

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
184481
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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