Anderton Mill Cottage
ANDERTON MILL COTTAGE, BENTLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072500
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Anderton Mill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ANDERTON MILL COTTAGE, BENTLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072500
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Anderton Mill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANDERTON MILL COTTAGE, BENTLEY LANE
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:
- ANDERTON MILL COTTAGE, BENTLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mawdesley
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 51054 14271
Details
MAWDESLEY BENTLEY LANE SD 51 SW 13/154 Anderton Mill Cottage - - II
Miller's cottage, now house. Dated 1799 on porch, but incorporating some earlier fabric; altered. Sandstone: front and gables of regular coursed blocks, rear of random rubble, with quoins; slate roof with brick chimneys. L-plan: 3 bays with rear wing to left half. Two storeys; in 1st bay a single-storey gabled porch with oval panel on lintel inscribed 1799 (with a flourish each side) and red tiled roof, and flanking this fixed windows with 4 and 6 panes; further right a vertical joint to half height with long and short stones suggesting the left jamb of a former wagon entrance, a 3-light casement in this part and a 2-light sliding sash to the 3rd bay; at 1st floor, sliding sash windows of 3, 3, and 2 lights. Rear: rear wing mostly random rubble but raised by 5 courses of masonry like the front; doorways into wing and 3rd bay, one small window on each floor. Interior: altered, but 3rd bay contains one exceptionally large chamfered beam. History: associated with windmill which formerly stood a few metres to north.
Listing NGR: SD5105414271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184408
- 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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