Vale House Farmhouse
VALE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, VIADUCT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072498
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Vale House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- VALE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, VIADUCT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072498
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Vale House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- VALE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, VIADUCT 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:
- VALE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, VIADUCT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hoghton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 62625 26738
Details
HOGHTON VIADUCT ROAD SD 62 NW 2/151 Vale House Farmhouse - - II
House, now farmhouse. Later C18, possibly with earlier origins, altered. Watershot coursed sandstone with quoins, stone slate (rear) and slate roof, with brick chimney stacks at the gables. Double-depth 3-bay plan. Three storeys, symmetrical; 1st floor band; eaves brackets; central glazed and panelled door with shallow rectangular 3-pane fanlight, two 4-pane sashed windows at ground floor and 3 at 1st floor, most with splayed stone heads, 3 small 6-pane sashes at 2nd floor. Left gable wall has two 4-pane sashes at ground floor; right gable wall has 3 windows at ground floor and 2 at 1st floor (one blind). Rear has inter alia a doorway with plain surround, above this a tall 2-stage stairlight with flat flush mullion and transom and 3 panes in each light; at 2nd floor two 2-light flush mullion windows with 6 panes in each light, and a single-storey extension to the rear of the 3rd bay. Interior: has 19 rooms including 4 cellars. History: associated with the de Hoghton family of Hoghton tower (q.v.); said to have been built as a gentleman's residence, the farmhouse itself now demolished.
Listing NGR: SD6262526738
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184405
- 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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