Critchley's Farmhouse (West Part Only)
CRITCHLEY'S FARMHOUSE (WEST PART ONLY), TAN HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072526
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Critchley's Farmhouse (West Part Only)
- Statutory Address:
- CRITCHLEY'S FARMHOUSE (WEST PART ONLY), TAN HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072526
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Critchley's Farmhouse (West Part Only)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRITCHLEY'S FARMHOUSE (WEST PART ONLY), TAN 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:
- CRITCHLEY'S FARMHOUSE (WEST PART ONLY), TAN HOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Heapey
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 59774 20583
Details
HEAPEY TAN HOUSE LANE SD 52 SE 5/119 Critchley's Farmhouse - (west part only) - II
Farmhouse, now house. Probably early C17, altered. Squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof with brick chimney at gable. Two bays. One-and-a- half storeys; modern stone porch at right hand end (overlapping later addition at this end), 2 square but unequal windows at ground floor (2-and 3-light casements), a small 2-light casement in the eaves above the second of these. Rear wall of different builds, with an irregular stepped junction between: small random rubble to the 2nd bay, squared stone in diminishing courses to the 1st bay, this part set back slightly; 2 inserted windows to the 1st bay, a doorway altered as a window in the 2nd bay. Interior: timber framed post-and-rail partition wall with wattle-and-daub infil and the lintel of a doorway framed into the front end; similar service-room partition in 1st bay (part removed); at 1st floor a large collar truss, the tie beam severed in the centre by an anciently-inserted doorway with arched head undercut in the collar.
Listing NGR: SD5977420583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184373
- 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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