Roecroft Farmhouse
ROECROFT FARMHOUSE, ULNES WALTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072515
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Roecroft Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROECROFT FARMHOUSE, ULNES WALTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072515
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Roecroft Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROECROFT FARMHOUSE, ULNES WALTON 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:
- ROECROFT FARMHOUSE, ULNES WALTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ulnes Walton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 51009 18889
Details
ULNES WALTON ULNES WALTON LANE SD 51 NW 9/196 Roecroft Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse. Earlier C18, altered and enlarged in C19. Handmade brick with stone quoins on chamfered sandstone plinth, graduated stone slate roof. Double-depth 2-bay plan. Two and a half storeys, symmetrical; bands on 2 levels, both of 3 courses but the upper with a recessed middle course; patched masonry in place of former central doorway, 2 square windows on each floor, all with segmental gauged brick heads, glazing altered; in centre of eaves a gabled ½-dormer; gable chimneys. Left gable covered by C19 addition. Right gable wall has an inserted doorway with elliptical head, a blocked 2-light cellar window in the plinth, and 2 stairwindows, both with segmental gauged brick heads, the lower with a 3-course band over it and the upper with a segmental label. Rear has 2 windows on each floor like those at the front (but with different glazing) and a small inserted window in the centre of each floor. Two-storey single-bay C19 addition to left. Interior: stopped ovolo-moulded beams in front rooms, stopped chamfered beams in rear room; timber-framed partition walls; dog-legged staircase with closed string, rectangular newels, turned balusters, and moulded handrail; upper cruck roof truss. (Note: Comparable with Nixons Farmhouse, q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD5101018903
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184450
- 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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