Withnell Fold Farmhouse with adjoining dairy and barn

Withnell Fold Farmhouse, Withnell Fold, Withnell, Chorley, PR6 8AZ

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072494
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:
Withnell Fold Farmhouse with adjoining dairy and barn
Statutory Address:
Withnell Fold Farmhouse, Withnell Fold, Withnell, Chorley, PR6 8AZ
Withnell Fold Farmhouse with adjoining dairy and barn. A farmhouse that is dated 1736 on lintel of door.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072494
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:
Withnell Fold Farmhouse with adjoining dairy and barn
Statutory Address 1:
Withnell Fold Farmhouse, Withnell Fold, Withnell, Chorley, PR6 8AZ

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Withnell Fold Farmhouse, Withnell Fold, Withnell, Chorley, PR6 8AZ

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 61366 23131

Details

SD 62 SW
6/230

WITHNELL
WITHNELL FOLD
Withnell Fold Farmhouse with adjoining dairy and barn

1.3.67

II

Farmhouse. Dated 1736 on lintel of door. Coursed sandstone with quoins, slate roof. Double-depth two-bay plan. Two storeys, almost symmetrical, with gable chimneys; first floor band; gable coping with kneelers; doorway has long and short lintel inscribed I / E L / 1736 ; two windows on each floor, three lights to left and four lights to right.

Breaking forwards at left end is added dairy of one bay and two storeys, with altered window at ground floor and three-light window above, and continued left is barn under same roof with datestone recording that it was rebuilt in 1855. Rear of house has inter-alia one three-light window and a single-light stair-window.

Listing NGR: SD6136623131

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
184484
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.

Ordnance survey map of Withnell Fold Farmhouse with adjoining dairy and barn

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