Bradleys Farmhouse
BRADLEYS FARMHOUSE, SHEEP HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072511
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bradleys Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BRADLEYS FARMHOUSE, SHEEP HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072511
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bradleys Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRADLEYS FARMHOUSE, SHEEP HOUSE 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:
- BRADLEYS FARMHOUSE, SHEEP HOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rivington
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 62969 15140
Details
RIVINGTON SHEEP HOUSE LANE (off) SD 61 NW 10/189 Bradleys Farmhouse 17.4.67 (Formerly listed as Bradleys) GV II
Farmhouse. Dated 1683 on lintel of door; altered. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, on chamfered plinth, graduated slate roof with stone gable copings and gable chimneys. Double-depth 2-bay plan with end-baffle entry and shallow rear outshut to 1st bay, extension to rear of this. Two storeys; at left end an added single-storey gabled porch breaking the hoodmould of the inner doorway which has a roll-moulded surround lintel with panelled raised lettering B ; ground floor has 1:6 I E 8:3 2 C19 sashed windows, 1st floor has recessed chamfered mullion windows of 2 and 2 lights under one hoodmould and 2 and 3 lights under one hoodmould (the 1st of these windows, over the porch, blocked). Left gable wall (rendered) has 2 windows on each floor, all casements but the upper with chamfered flush mullions, and 2 blocked round-headed attic lights. Right gable wall has mostly blocked windows: 2 and one light at ground floor, with hoodmoulds, 2 and one light at 1st floor, 2 lights in the attic lacking the mullion. Rear has a 3-light window with hoodmould at ground floor of 2nd bay. Interior: apparently altered, now with a central lateral passage and dog-legged C19 staircase; boxed beams. Note: early example of double-depth plan interestingly combined with traditional end-baffle-entry; and dated.
Listing NGR: SD6296915140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184443
- 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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