Farmers Arms Inn With Buildings Attached Including Number 101
FARMERS ARMS INN WITH BUILDINGS ATTACHED INCLUDING NUMBER 101, TOWNGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072522
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Farmers Arms Inn With Buildings Attached Including Number 101
- Statutory Address:
- FARMERS ARMS INN WITH BUILDINGS ATTACHED INCLUDING NUMBER 101, TOWNGATE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072522
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Farmers Arms Inn With Buildings Attached Including Number 101
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARMERS ARMS INN WITH BUILDINGS ATTACHED INCLUDING NUMBER 101, TOWNGATE
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:
- FARMERS ARMS INN WITH BUILDINGS ATTACHED INCLUDING NUMBER 101, TOWNGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eccleston
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 51744 17309
Details
ECCLESTON TOWNGATE SD 51 NW 9/108 Farmers Arms Inn with buildings - attached including No. 101 GV II
Public house, with former stables, cottage, etc; mid C18, with additions later C18. Handmade brick painted white, slate roof; and handmade brick with stone slate roofs. Farmers Arms is double-depth 2-bay plan; 2 storeys, almost symmetrical, with gable chimneys; 2-course band; board door offset slightly right of centre, 2 square sashed windows on each floor, all these openings with gauged brick heads and those at ground floor segmental-headed; painted sign on brackets in centre of 1st floor. To the right on lower level a short 2-storey continuation with blocked doorway at the junction and one window on each floor, like the others. Interior of Farmers Arms: 4-room plan altered (partition in right-hand side removed); one fielded panel door. To the left, stable and cottages consist of 3 elements in 3 builds; all altered but not recently: stable adjoining Farmers Arms, cottage adjoining this slightly canted back, and set back and further canted, the gable end of a receding wing probably formerly a pair of cottages. Stable is one bay, 2 storeys, has door at junction with Farmers Arms and former loading door to loft altered as a 6-pane sliding sash window; canted part adjoining on left is one bay, 2 slightly lower storeys, has a wide segmental head to a former wagon door and a 20-pane sash below and another above; gable of No.101 to left has a panelled door to the right and one 20-pane sash in the centre of each floor (upper altered slightly) and its left return wall has a blocked former door near the front corner, a damaged modern porch left of centre and two 4-pane sashes above. This part derelict at time of survey (1985).
Listing NGR: SD5174417309
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184360
- 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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